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Historic wrecks: Risks or resources
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Historic wrecks: Risks or resources

John Gribble, Dave Parham and Della Scott-Ireton
Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Vol.11, pp.16-28
11
2009

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Abstract

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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