Abstract
Underwater Archaeology tends to be particularistic, focusing on the human activities associated with an event; however, human behavior and its resultant material remains exist on a physical and cultural landscape and cannot be separated from it. Studying archaeological sites within the landscape reveals patterns of human behavior that can only be identified within that context. The natural environment constrains and informs human behavior and plays an important role in the development of maritime culture and landscape. The processes by which this occurs can be studied through analysis of the archaeological record. This chapter presents a new approach to integrating the components of the maritime landscape with the understanding of the archaeological and historic records as well as oceanographic processes to develop a new phenomenological model of the landscape that takes into account not only shipwrecks, but also the totality of human activity within a defined area.
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