The question of whether historic wrecks are risks or resources is a matter of perception and understanding. This paper discusses how shipwrecks can be, and have been, perceived as either risks and/or resources or neither, but yet how wrecks tend to be thoughtlessly labelled as resources, in particular by cultural heritage managers, a labelling with serious consequences for the management and curation of wrecks, encouraging or justifying actions by others which compromise the archaeological integrity and value of these sites.
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Title
Historic wrecks
Publication Details
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Vol.11, pp.16-28
Resource Type
Journal article
Publisher
W. S. Maney & Son Ltd
Series
11
Copyright
W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2009
Identifiers
99380090874306600
Academic Unit
Anthropology; College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities