Prelude: A History of maritime archaeological thought

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dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Peter B.
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-18T14:58:28Z
dc.date.available2023-04-18T14:58:28Z
dc.date.issued2023-03-14
dc.description.abstractBefore considering contemporary philosophy and maritime archaeology, it is worth reviewing the history of maritime archaeological thought. R. G. Collingwood, notable as the only professor of philosophy who was also a practicing archaeologist, argued “no historical problem should be studied without studying… the history of historical thought about it” (Collingwood, 1939, p. 132), which is the approach of Bruce Trigger’s A History of Archaeological Thought (2006, pp. 1–2). Trigger’s monumental study of archaeology’s intellectual trajectory provides a framework for understanding the broader field; however, it rarely touches on thought relating to archaeology under water, largely due to maritime archaeology being “theory agnostic” according to Matthew Harpster. Indeed, the relationship between maritime archaeology and theory, especially engagement with new philosophies, has been fraught. While archaeology and the related field of anthropology have significant cohorts of scholars who experiment and appraise new philosophical and theoretical approaches, contemporary maritime archaeology has been slow to do so. However, this has not always the case if we look at the pursuit of knowledge through underwater excavation, which has a history of over 250 projects from 1006 until the advent of modern maritime archaeology following the excavation of the Bronze Age shipwreck at Cape Gelidonya in 1960 (Campbell and Flemming, 2022). This chapter provides a short, non-comprehensive history of maritime archaeological thought which might – as Collingwood advocates – provide useful context for the rest of the volume.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationCampbell PB. (2023) Prelude: A History of maritime archaeological thought. In: Contemporary philosophy for maritime archaeology: flat ontologies, oceanic thought, and the Anthropocene, Sidestone Press Academics, March 2023en_UK
dc.identifier.isbn9789464270402
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.sidestone.com/books/contemporary-philosophy-for-maritime-archaeology
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/19505
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSidestone Press Academicsen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectApocalypseen_UK
dc.subjectAnthropoceneen_UK
dc.subjectarchaeological theoryen_UK
dc.subjectmaritime studiesen_UK
dc.subjectnautical archaeologyen_UK
dc.subjectnew materialismen_UK
dc.subjectobject-oriented ontologyen_UK
dc.titlePrelude: A History of maritime archaeological thoughten_UK
dc.title.alternativeAppendix to Chapter 1: A History of maritime archaeological thought
dc.typeBook chapteren_UK

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