The treatment and management of human remains in land archaeology has been a debated topic. However, in the field of underwater cultural heritage, the references are almost non-existent. The importance of the topic has ...

This article gives the preliminary results of a study of metal artefacts recovered from European shipwrecks dating from the mid 18th- to early 19th-century. The analytical approach included optical emission spectrometry ...

Gunflints represent a worldwide feature of lithic technology in modern times. This type of artefact was used to ignite the powder of firearms through a flintlock mechanismfrom the middle-seventeenth to the early-twentieth ...

The hermeneutic applicability of the metaphors-set implied in the paradigmatic «Shipwreck with Spectator» goes beyond the understanding of the non-conceptual background of theoretical attitude towards existence. The seafaring ...

Historiography has addressed the shipwreck of the Wager frigate as a specific episode within the expedition of George Anson to the Pacific (1740-1744), without paying much attention to its four sources. In this article we ...

This note is an introduction to a new topic in the SAS Bulletin focused on archaeometric research in the fields of historical and maritime archaeology. The importance of these studies has increased during the last decades ...