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Fishing and shipwreck heritage : marine archaeology's greatest threat? /

"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 thes...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kingsley, Sean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2016]
Colección:Debates in archaeology.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover page
  • Halftitle page
  • Series page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Epigraph
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Wrecks and Time Capsules
  • Dredger destruction
  • Pipelines and protection
  • Treasure hunters
  • Among the fish
  • 2 Trawling the Data
  • Beginnings
  • Classifying impacts
  • Summary
  • 3 Bulldozers of the Deep
  • Public outcry
  • Bottom trawling gear
  • Quantifying trawler disturbance
  • Summary
  • 4 Scales of Heritage Impacts
  • European seas
  • The Greater Mediterranean
  • The AmericasSoutheast Asia and the Far East
  • Summary
  • 5 Management Myopia
  • Heritage management: all at sea
  • Summary
  • 6 Conclusion: Seeking Sustainability
  • Making technology work
  • Economic war chests and public outreach
  • Environmental solutions
  • Record or rot?
  • Towards a hyper-realistic future
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index