| Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage: Marine Archaeology's Greatest Threat? Contributor(s): Kingsley, Sean A. (Author), Hodges, Richard (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472573609 ISBN-13: 9781472573605 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $118.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 930.102 |
| LCCN: 2015018678 |
| Series: Debates in Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.76 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For 250 years encrusted wonders have been turning up in fishermen's nets: everything imaginable from prehistoric animal bones to priceless Roman statues. Fishing trawlers annually sweep an area equivalent in size to half the world's continental shelves. Everything in the wake of these bulldozers of the deep is battered. A devastating trail of smashed shipwrecks runs from the North Sea to Malaysia. The profound threat of the global fishing industry remains a black hole in marine archaeology, poorly understood and unmanaged. Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage is the first global analysis of the threat of bottom fishing to underwater cultural heritage, examining the diversity, scale and implications on endangered finds and sites. Throughout, the key questions of whether it is too late to save the planet's three million wrecks and how sustainable management is achievable are debated. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hodges, Richard: - Richard Hodges, OBE, is Professor and Director of the Institute of World Archaeology, University of East Anglia, UK, and Director of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA. He is the editor of the Debates in Archaeology series; and his publications include Dark Age Economics, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne, Goodbye to the Vikings and (as co-author) Villa to Village, all published by Bloomsbury. |