Sean A. Kingsley

Fishing and Shipwreck Heritage

Marine Archaeology's Greatest Threat?

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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 heritag… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4725-7362-9
EAN: 9781472573629
Produktnummer: 19553688
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 10'133 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 16 bw illus

Über den Autor

Sean Kingsley is a marine archaeologist and the Director of Wreck Watch International, a London-based consultancy specializing in threats to global maritime heritage. He has written eleven books on deep-sea wrecks, ancient trade, economics, and Byzantine seafaring.