Shipwreck Ecology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alicia Caporaso.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Ecology of Underwater Cultural Heritage: From Microbial Communities to Macrofauna", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Shipwreck ecology can be defined as the effective interaction between ships and shipwrecks and marine organisms within the environmental contexts in which they are located. Locally controlled site formation processes by which all shipwrecks deteriorate are coupled with recruitment of...