LETS DISCOVER WHAT IS UNDERWATER ARCHAELOGY...
By 👉Nisa Emelyia
Underwater archaeology is the practise of archaeology underwater. Like all other fields of archaeology, it grew from its prehistoric and classical beginnings to encompass sites from the historical and industrial eras. Its adoption has been slow due to the difficulty of accessing and working at underwater sites, as well as the fact that the application of archaeology to underwater sites originated with the skills and instruments created by shipwreck salvagers. As a result, underwater archaeology failed to establish itself as legitimate archaeological study at first. Underwater archaeology is often complementary to archaeological research on terrestrial sites because the two are often linked by many and various elements including geographic, social, political, economic and other considerations. Furthermore, underwater archaeology teaches us about the objects and shipwrecks that it protects, historical trade routes, maritime technology, and the lifestyles of people who lived near water.
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| Archaeologists use a dredge to remove sediment from the Queen Anne's Revenge shipwreck site. |
SOURCE : What is underwater archaeology?. What is Underwater Archaeology? | NC Archaeology. (n.d.). https://archaeology.ncdcr.gov/blog/2020-04-29/submerged-nc-underwater-archaeology
UNDERWATER FINDS :
Thunder Bay, Michigan, USA 👇
Thunder Bay, a 4,300 square mile underwater museum in Lake Huron with a Marine Sanctuary designation, is home to some of America's best-preserved and historically significant shipwrecks. Scholars and visiting divers alike may learn an unmatched amount about America's maritime and commercial industries over the past 200 years thanks to the special conditions surrounding these ships' preservation. The boats, which spanned in design and type from wooden schooners to early steel-hulled steamers, told the narrative of the nautical history of the Great Lakes in a striking and moving way. The wrecks vary in depth and position, with some being visible above the waves and others being up to 200 feet below the surface.
Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt 👇
The Egyptian port city of Thonis-Heracleion had been inhabited for almost a thousand years until seismic activity and increasing sea levels actually converted the land on which it was constructed into sand, dumping centuries of history into the Mediterranean. Finds from the site show that the city was most affluent during the sixth and fourth centuries BCE, when it was rediscovered in 1999 and investigated irregularly since then. Statues of Greco-Egyptian gods, ceramics, coins, and complete temples have emerged from the water, showing the nature of this vital port to Alexandria further downstream on the Nile. The European Institute of Underwater Archaeology discovered a new shipwreck dating to the Ptolemaic era, likely the second century BCE, just last summer.
Very interesting!
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