Then And Now: Progress During The Past Fifty Years.in the Development Of Underwater Archaeology as a Mature Sub-Discipline of Archaeology and Anthropology

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Underwater Archaeology In The 21st Century: From Humble Beginnings To Integration With Anthropology And Archaeology", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

At the 12th Conference on Underwater Archaeology (“The Challenge Before Us”, 1981), I delivered a paper entitled, "Nautical Archaeology: Coming of Age, But Facing an Identity Crisis.” The primary purpose of the paper, presented at a terrestrial session, was to promote underwater archaeology among our terrestrial colleagues. I also hoped the paper would provide inspiration and guidance to the underwater community. The paper concluded with a series of very basic goals for future research and resource management. In this paper, I offer reflections on my half-century of involvement in the field, then review our progress on those early goals and on topics I hadn’t covered before. I also suggest new goals for the future.

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