Maritime Archaeology and Capacity Development in the Global South

Blue, Lucy; Breen, Colin

doi:10.1007/s11457-019-09244-x

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“…Maritime archaeology is a slowly growing field in North Africa and the professional capacity which allows the documentation and management of coastal and marine cultural heritage remains relatively low. There are multiple reasons for this, not least the limited funds available to local antiquity authorities (which also contributes to lack of maintenance and neglect), the marginalisation of heritage in coastal/marine management, as well as in general development practice, and often a lack of awareness of the nature, extent and significance of maritime cultural heritage (Blue and Breen 2019). Legislative issues may also play a part.…”

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Endangered maritime archaeology in North Africa – the MarEA Project

2023

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Increasing pressure – such as from conflict, climate change and urbanisation – on maritime cultural heritage in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) led to the establishment of the Maritime Endangered Archaeology (MarEA) Project in 2019. This five-year programme aims to assess rapidly and comprehensively the vulnerability of maritime and coastal heritage in the MENA region and assist in its management in the face of the aforementioned challenges. The two case studies discussed in this article highlight some of the main aspects of MarEA's current work in North Africa by focusing on two different aspects of the methodological approach used: first, the generalised but comprehensive damage and threat assessment, as applied to all sites, and demonstrated for the historic port of Suakin (Sudan); second, site-specific shoreline change assessment for the purpose of assessing the impact of coastal erosion, as demonstrated for the World Heritage Site of Sabratha (Libya).

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Endangered maritime archaeology in North Africa – the MarEA Project

2023

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“…A significant percentage of the field has devoted efforts toward the protection of underwater cultural heritage, as well as aligning the field with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Decade of the Ocean (Firth 2018; Henderson 2019; Trakadas, Firth and Gregory 2019). Over the last decade, organizations such as the Honor Frost Foundation have placed an emphasis on reaching policymakers, but also on on-the-ground capacity-building and awareness-raising (Blue and Breen 2019; Demesticha, Semaan and Morsy 2019). Projects such as Rising from the Depths seek to identify ways in which marine cultural heritage can benefit coastal communities in Tanzania, Mozambique, and Kenya by leading community-focused maritime initiatives, addressing the UN SDGs, and facing social challenges through maritime archaeology within the Global South (Henderson et al 2021; Holly et al 2022).…”

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6 Shipwreck archaeology in the past 10 years

Briggs,

Campbell

2023

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This paper reviews the trends, topics, and research directions in shipwreck archaeology over the past decade. As archaeology increasingly embraces advances in technological methods that can aid our research, the so-called ‘digital turn’, it behoves maritime archaeologists, and archaeologists more broadly, to consider how collaborative utilization of specialized fields including biomolecular archaeology, geophysics, and contemporary philosophy have spurred on a rapid modernization of our field in recent times. Archaeological research, both terrestrial and underwater, has long been a collaborative discipline. However, we argue here that difficulties in working underwater have encouraged maritime and underwater archaeologists to embrace technological developments at a rapid pace. An explicit theoretical framework and the incorporation of contemporary philosophy in the field of underwater archaeology was, until recently, largely lacking in the discipline’s discourse. The incorporation and advancement of adjacent disciplines within the field of underwater archaeology mark the most relevant changes within the shifting tides of shipwreck research.

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“…Despite recent efforts to promote its research potential [50,51] and the long recognition of the Swahili as a 'maritime' culture [52], there has never been a coordinated multidisciplinary engagement with East Africa's extraordinarily rich Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH), and in common with most other parts of the continent there has been limited local capacity to undertake research in this field and maximise MCH as a 'public good' [53]. This is unsurprising given that the potential and importance of MCH has not yet been fully realised anywhere in the world.…”

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Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa

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The Rising from the Depths (RftD) network aims to identify the ways in which Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) can contribute to the sustainable development of coastal communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar. Although the coastal and marine heritage of eastern Africa is a valuable cultural and environmental resource, it remains largely unstudied and undervalued and is subject to significant threat from natural and anthropogenic processes of change. This paper outlines the aims of the RftD network and describes the co-creation of a challenge-led research and sustainability programme for the study of MCH in eastern Africa. Through funding 29 challenge-led research projects across these four Global South countries, the network is demonstrating how MCH can directly benefit East African communities and local economies through building identity and place-making, stimulating resource-centred alternative sources of income and livelihoods, and enhancing the value and impact of overseas aid in the marine sector. Overall, Rising from the Depths aims to illustrate that an integrated consideration of cultural heritage, rather than being a barrier to development, should be positioned as a central facet of the transformative development process if that development is to be ethical, inclusive and sustainable.

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Maritime Archaeology and Capacity Development in the Global South

Cited by 9 publications

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Endangered maritime archaeology in North Africa – the MarEA Project

Endangered maritime archaeology in North Africa – the MarEA Project

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Rising from the Depths Network: A Challenge-Led Research Agenda for Marine Heritage and Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa

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