Maritime Heritage Ecology: Discussions, Challenges, and Incentives of Intercollaboration

Summary

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.

Maritime Heritage Ecology is an interdisciplinary research framework that aims to understand the interactive biological, natural, and anthropogenic factors that drive site formation processes and answer critical management questions for UCH. Similar to Shipwreck Ecology, this nascent area of research integrates questions and methodologies from different fields to address scientific, management, and cultural perspectives towards understanding natural and anthropogenic systems affecting UCH and contemporary societies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2025   •
• The Ecology of Underwater Cultural Heritage: From Microbial Communities to Macrofauna

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Contact(s): Nicole Haddow