In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the pas[...]
With people's relationship to water as a unifying theme, this book explores and interprets archaeological material from different historical periods and with topics ranging from stone-age coastal hunters to nineteenth-century pilots. Human cultural interaction with the marine environment around the [...]