Perspectives from Historical Archaeology and ACUA Proceedings: Maritime Archaeology

This is the first effort to compile a Perspectives volume that represents published
articles from both the SHA journal, Historical Archaeology and the ACUA Underwater Archaeology Proceedings. This volume represents a comprehensive look at the field of underwater archaeology from the society's earliest conferences to present. Because this volume is compiled from a compilation of sources produced over the years, there are a range of publication styles, printers, and layouts resulting in a number of inconsistencies that can not be helped even in today’s technologically advanced world of printing. Many of the articles only exist as print copies and today are difficult to find. Thus, a number of the articles are facsimiles of the original paper publications. By creating facsimiles we have been able to accomplish one of the stated goals of the Perspectives series making available previously published articles cost effectively. Facsimiles are not edited and often the quality of the images is low. However, weighed against never having access to these important articles, we chose to publish the facsimiles. We have provided the citations for the original publications for reference.