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The dispersal of domestic cats from Northern Africa and their introduction to Europe over the last two millennia

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De Martino M   +51 more
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Defining ‘underwater cultural heritage’

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 2002
The newly adopted United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage provides the first universal protection regime for this value archaeological resource. A central difficulty in concluding this Convention was defining underwater cultural heritage.
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Underwater cultural heritage and human rights

2023
This chapter takes the view that there are multiple indications in theory and trends in practice testifying to the emergence of a human rights approach to cultural heritage which, regardless of its peculiarities, also applies to underwater cultural heritage (UCH).
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Underwater Cultural Heritage

2020
Abstract This chapter focuses on underwater cultural heritage. This form of heritage is important because it constitutes what has been called a ‘time capsule’—meaning everything on a site may well be as it was when it disappeared beneath the water’s surface.
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Underwater cultural heritage is integral to marine ecosystems

Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2022
Underwater cultural heritage (UCH) supports marine biodiversity and influences connectivity. UCH structure, colonizing organisms, and anthropogenic stressors interact to shape sites over time, but these interactions are poorly understood. Here, we express the urgent need for biology-archeology collaborations to address interdisciplinary questions.
Kirstin S. Meyer-Kaiser, Calvin H. Mires
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International Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage

Proceedings of OCEANS 2005 MTS/IEEE, 2005
Ultimately much UCH will be discovered beyond the regulatory competence of any State. Hopefully, if the political will exists, the provisions of the UNESCO Convention that were adopted without consensus, can be renegotiated so that its Rules can be applied to a significantly broader range of underwater cultural heritage than is possible under ...
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Encyclopedia of underwater cultural heritage

2020
This encyclopedia includes two main sections: annotated list of the most significant works dealing with the exploration of the underwater cultural heritage covering the period from 1859 to2019 brief biographical information about specialists in underwater cultural heritage and four applications that reveal the major exploration issues relating to ...
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Underwater Cultural Heritage in Bermuda

2002
The first recorded encounter of Bermuda was between 1503 and 1505 by Spaniard Juan Bermudez on a return trip to Europe, on the eastern side of the Gulf Stream at 64°40′ West and 32°20′ North. In the centuries before the invention of the Harrison chronometer, which allowed for the routine determination of longitude, Bermuda served as a navigational ...
Clifford Earle Smith   +1 more
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Code of underwater cultural heritage site of Russia: Part III: Russian underwater cultural heritage abroad

2020
The paper is substantially a publication of a scientific and reference nature designed to give a general idea of the Russian underwater cultural heritage located abroad. The Code is underlain by information resulting from the exploration of archival sources and literature, historical and search portals, websites, etc.
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The management of the underwater cultural heritage

Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2003
Abstract The underwater cultural heritage (UCH) includes all the material evidence of human activities carried on in the marine environment, particularly as evidenced on the sea floor. The evolution of the UCH is outlined, taking due account of its origins in the world’s traditional societies, and of the process of industrialisation of maritime ...
Hance D. Smith, Alastair D. Couper
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