Cultural site formation processes in maritime archaeology: Disaster response, salvage and Muckelroy 30 years on

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 4-19

  Gibbs, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crisis; Cultural processes; Disaster response; Salvage; Shipwreck; Site formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845386455     PISSN: 10572414     EISSN: 10959270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-9270.2006.00088.x     Document Type: Article

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