Contributions Brazilian Navy's in the protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

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This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

At the end of 2017, the Brazilian Navy launched a major campaign for awareness and protection of underwater cultural heritage located within jurisdictional waters of Brazil. This campaign is intended to share with the public the need to preserve and protect submerged archaeological sites, mainly shipwrecks, which in the past have been subjected to looting and improper exploitation. With the motto “A deep dive to respect the country”, the campaign highlights that preserving history is everyone´s responsibility, emphasizing that “shipwrecks constitute archaeological testimonies which are protected by the Federal Constitution” and that “damage to or appropriation of such heritage is a crime”. With a sea coast of approximately 8,500 km in length, more than 2,000 archaeological sites of shipwrecks have been recorded in Brazilian waters. The proposal of this poster presents the contributions of the Brazil’s Navy in the protection of this patrimony.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• 2020 SHA Poster Submissions

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