Archaeology Underwater: The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice

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Underwater Archaeology The Nautical Archaeology Society also publishes The International Journal of Nautical Archaeologywith Bla ...

Second Edition Underwater Archaeology The NAS Guide to Principles and Practice Editor: Amanda Bowens, BA MA THE NAUTICAL ARCHAEO ...

This edition first published 2009 © 2009 by Nautical Archaeological Society Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & ...

v List of Figures viii List of Plates xi Foreword xiii Acknowledgements xiv 1 The NAS Handbook – Why It Was Written 1 2 Underwat ...

vi CONTENTS ...

- Recording Information On Site - Recording Timbers - Recording Contexts - Recording Stratigraphy - Recording Environm ...

2.1 The Dover bronze-age boat 3 2.2 The fifteenth-century Newport ship 4 2.3 Experimental archaeology: building a replica log bo ...

LIST OFFIGURES ix 11.10 Temporary transits formed by setting up paired ranging rods along a shore baseline 91 11.11 Surveying a ...

xLIST OFFIGURES 18.10 Profile gauge in use 176 18.11 Depiction of complex decoration (‘rolled out’) 177 18.12 The drawing of a c ...

Plates fall between pages 114 and 115 2.1 Charles Deane diving on HMS Royal George(1782) 2.2 Ethnographic recording of a three-l ...

xii LIST OFPLATES 14.1 Using vertical offsets to record hull profile 14.2 Underwater survey: diver with drawing board 14.3 A cli ...

T he Nautical Archaeological Society has for many years been a champion of best practice in archae- ology under water through it ...

E xcept where otherwise stated, the drawings in this second edition are by Graham Scott, copied or inspired by Ben Ferrari’s dra ...

Plate 2. Forerunner to underwater archaeology: in the nineteenth century the Deane brothers worked as ‘submarine engineers’ in a ...

Plate 2.2 Ethnographic recording of a three-log kat in Edava, Kerala, India. (Photo: Colin Palmer) Plate 3.2 Archaeology on the ...

Plate 4.1 Underwater sites, particularly within closed contexts such as this chest of longbows on the Mary Rose(1545), can resul ...

Plate 4.2 Site types: reconstruction of a crannog on Loch Tay, Scotland. (Photo: Colin Martin) Plate 4.3 The Swedish man-of-war ...

Plate 6.1 Archaeological team on surface supply preparing to dive. The supervisor (centre) reads out the pre-dive checks; the di ...

Plate 8.2 Stratigraphy: an underwater excavation face showing several stratigraphic layers visible in the subtle changes of text ...