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This popular-science book tells the story of one of the most important, but least known major archaeological sites in Europe: Doggerland. Few people know that the beaches along the North Sea lie on the edge of a vast lost world. A prehistoric landscape that documents almost a million years of human habitation and lay dry for most of that time. Doggerland is where early hominids left the first footprints in northern Europe, more than 900,000 years ago. Later, for hundreds of thousands of years, it was the scene of ice ages. A world of woolly mammoths and rhinoceroses, horses and reindeer and the successful Neanderthals who hunted them, including Krijn: the first Neanderthal from Doggerland. At the end of the last Ice Age, the first modern humans also left their traces here, including the famous Leman-and-Ower-Banks spearhead - the first documented Doggerland find - and some of the oldest art in the region. With the onset of the Holocene, our current era, Doggerland's inhabitants were increasingly confronted with climate change and rising sea levels, just as we are today. The Mesolithic hunter-gatherers lived in a rich, but constantly changing world - to which they successfully adapted. Ongoing submergence and a huge tsunami around 6150 BC marked the beginning of the end. A few centuries later, the last islands disappeared under the waves and with them the story of Doggerland was lost in time. This book brings this vanished world back to the surface.

Antiquities. --- Antiquities, Prehistoric. --- Underwater archaeology.

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This open access volume focuses on the environmental hazards and cultural significance of Potentially Polluting Wrecks (PPWs), and how mitigation efforts have assisted in documenting and preserving the history of these sites. It is an important resource on the subject of Potentially Polluting Wrecks that synthesizes previously published information that was not academically or scientifically produced. This includes numerous international studies of shipwreck databases and threats posed by world war wrecks containing oil and other hazardous materials that could spill. This book evaluates these materials and presents new analyses and investigations with modern technology that assist in locating, documenting, and remediating polluting wreck sites. Consequently, this volume calls for increased ocean exploration missions to locate sunken merchant vessels that may pose pollution hazards and site assessments to determine any potential risks. This book is of interest to government officials, educators, archaeologists and practitioners working in the field of underwater archaeology.

Underwater archaeology. --- Cultural property --- Historic preservation. --- Oceanography. --- Maritime Archaeology. --- Conservation and Preservation. --- Ocean Sciences. --- Protection.

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Découverte en 1973 dans la Charente, en aval de Saintes et par 7 m de fond, l’épave de Port Berteau II a été fouillée de 1992 à 1997 avec une double problématique reposant sur la mise en relation des vestiges de la coque avec son environnement.Conduite selon les techniques classiques de l’archéologie subaquatique, l’étude de l’épave, de l’étrave à l’étambot, a permis de dresser le -portrait architectural » d’un caboteur du début du Vile s. Long de 1430 m et bâti à franc-bord embrure première », ce bateau a été construit pour la navigation fluvio-maritime et pouvait transporter une cargaison d’une dizaine de tonnes. L’analyse du milieu fluvial, relevant de ce que l’on pourrait qualifier d’archéologie nautique, a abouti quant à elle à une restitution du paysage naturel contemporain de l’épave. Le caboteur de Port Berteau II est désormais une référence pour l’histoire de la construction à carvel dans le Ponant uniquement attestée jusqu’alors par des textes du XVe s. Discovered in 1973, the Port Berteau wreck lies at a depth of 7 metres in the Charente river below Samtes. Excavations (1992-1997) were carried out with the dual objective of studying both the hull’s remains and its natural environment.Using the traditional techniques of ship archaeology to examine the wreck from the stem to the stern-post has enabled archaeologists to draw an ‘architectural portrait" of an early 7th century coaster. The 14.30 metre carvel built "frame-first" boat was intended for river navigation and built to carry a cargo of up to ten tonnes. Using what could be called a naval archaeology approach, researchers have analysed the nver environment to reconstruct the natural landscape of the period. The Port Berteau II coaster thus provides a reference for carvel construction history in the Ponant, reviously attested only in 15th century texts.

Archaeology, Medieval --- Underwater archaeology --- River boats --- Charente-Maritime (France) --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Antiquités --- Archaeology --- navigation --- Charente --- épave --- VIle s. --- architecture navale --- milieu fluvial

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Many of the papers in this volume present new and innovative research into the processes of maritime colonisation, processes that affect archaeological contexts from islands to continents. Others shift focus from process to the archaeology of maritime places from the Bering to the Torres Straits, providing highly detailed discussions of how living by and with the sea is woven into all elements of human life from subsistence to trade and to ritual. Of equal importance are more abstract discussions of islands as natural places refashioned by human occupation, either through the introduction of new organisms or new systems of production and consumption. These transformation stories gain further texture (and variety) through close examinations of some of the more significant consequences of colonisation and migration, particularly the creation of new cultural identities. A final set of papers explores the ways in which the techniques of archaeological sciences have provided insights into the fauna of the islands and the human history of such places.

Coastal archaeology --- Coastal settlements --- Island archaeology --- Underwater archaeology --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Prehistoric Anthropology --- History --- Coastal archaeology. --- Island archaeology. --- Underwater archaeology. --- History. --- Coastal sites (Archaeology) --- Coasts --- Archaeology, Submarine --- Marine archaeology --- Maritime archaeology --- Nautical archaeology --- Submarine archaeology --- Antiquities --- Human settlements --- Archaeology --- Underwater exploration --- Marine archaeologists

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Les récentes découvertes d'épaves de barges fluviales gallo- romaines à Arles et à Lyon (place Tolozan et parc Saint- Georges), auxquelles s'ajoutent les épaves de Chalon-sur- Saône, ont non seulement attiré l'attention sur la batellerie fluviale et lacustre gallo-romaine mais aussi porté au premier plan des recherches sur le bassin rhodanien et le Midi de la Gaule jusque-là peu présents ou même totalement absents du débat. Or les particularités de ces épaves renouvellent fondamentalement le sujet en montrant l'existence d'une tradition régionale "Rhône-Saône" mettant en lumière des influences maritimes méditerranéennes. Dès lors, il devenait intéressant de confronter ces recherches sur le bassin fluvial Rhône-Saône et le Midi de la Gaule à celles menées sur l'Europe du Nord qui avaient monopolisé le débat sur la construction navale gallo-romaine. A partir de données provenant de l'arc rhénan (Allemagne, Pays-Bas) et du lac de Neuchâtel (Suisse), ces recherches avaient jusqu'alors mis en évidence l'existence des seuls groupes régionaux "rhénan" et "alpin". Il est aussi apparu enrichissant d'élargir le sujet de cet ouvrage à d'autres épaves, comme l'épave lagunaire de la Conque des Salins (étang de Thau, Hérault), encore peu connue, et celle du chaland de la Ljubljanica (Slovénie), de découverte plus ancienne, dont les caractéristiques s'inscrivent dans le cadre de la nouvelle problématique définie autour des notions de pratiques régionales et d'influences maritimes méditerranéennes. C'est, au total, à un renouvellement complet du panorama de la construction navale et de la batellerie gallo- romaine que nous invite cet ouvrage. Richement illustré, il comporte de nombreuses contributions de spécialistes français et étrangers, qui remettent au premier plan les études sur la batellerie antique et montrent l'intérêt d'un domaine trop souvent considéré comme un genre mineur.

Inland water transportation --- Shipbuilding --- Ships, Ancient --- Navigation --- Transports de navigation intérieure --- Construction navale --- Navires anciens --- History --- History. --- Histoire --- France --- Europe --- Antiquities, Roman. --- Antiquités romaines --- Transports de navigation intérieure --- Antiquités romaines --- Antiquités gallo-romaines -- Europe -- Actes de congrès --- History & Archaeology --- archéologie subaquatique --- construction navale --- barge --- port --- underwater archaeology --- shipbuilding --- harbour