Book Series Warsaw Studies in Archaeology, vol. 7

Archaeology: Just Add Water

Volume III

Bartosz Kontny, Małgorzata Mileszczyk, Magdalena Nowakowska (eds)

  • Pages: 224 p.
  • Size:216 x 280 mm
  • Illustrations:35 b/w, 88 col., 15 maps color
  • Language(s):English
  • Publication Year:2025


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Third volume of “Światowit” Supplement Series U (Underwater Archaeology) from the University of Warsaw’s Faculty of Archaeology

Summary

While archaeology is often considered to focus on the land that lies beneath our feet, significant amounts of material culture have been lost to us beneath water, whether in seas, lakes, rivers, or submerged caves. The world of underwater archaeology, however, is increasingly recognized as a field that is vital to our understanding of the past. The chapters gathered together into this volume draw on research first presented at the Fourth Warsaw Seminar on Underwater Archaeology, held at the University of Warsaw on 18–20 November 2021. From the seas of the Caribbean through to the Mediterranean and Norway, and from Antiquity through to contemporary times, the chapters presented here offer a dazzling array of different approaches to underwater archaeology and outline the potential that changing technology presents in this expanding field.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Preface
Małgorzata Mileszczyk, Magdalena Nowakowska, Magdalena Krzemień, and Joanna Staniszewska

Foreword
Bartosz Kontny

Professor Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti
Karolina Trusz

Iwona Modrzewska-Pianetti: Selected Works


Section I. The Mediterranean

1. The Water Landscape in Sicily and its Cults between Classical Sources and Archaeological Sites. Preliminary Analysis
Giulia Raimondi

2. Punta Prima Project: In Situ Preservation of an Early Roman Shipwreck near Formentera Island (Spain). An Educational Experience
Enrique Aragón, Małgorzata Mileszczyk, Javier Rodríguez, and Joanna Staniszewska

Section II. The New World

3. Manantial de la Aleta – The Top of the Iceberg in a Caribbean Cave
Przemysław Adrian Trześniowski

Section III. The Baltic Sea

4. Portu de Heliousound in Norwegia. Submarine Archaeological Investigations in the Late Medieval and Modern Era Outport of Ny-Hellesund, Southern Norway
Elling Utvik Wammer

Section IV. Rivers of Central Europe

5. Wreck Hunting in the Vistula River near Warsaw
Artur Brzóska, Piotr Prejs, and Andrzej Szerszeń

6. Live Acoustic Pictures from the Depths. Shipwreck SZD1 Survey with Adaptive Resolution Imaging Sonar (ARIS) 
Piotr Maliński and Paweł Mikołajewski

7. Between Hydrography and Underwater Ethnoarchaeology. Modelling of Selected Wrecks in the Lower Oder as Part of Research on the Geoclassification Method of Ferromagnetic Bottom Objects
Izabela Bodus-Olkowska, Grzegorz Zaniewicz, and Piotr Maliński

Section V. Lakes of Central Europe

8. Small Finds from the Great Water. Unexpected Discovery from Lake Śniardwy
Agata Grzędzielska and Bartosz Kontny

9. Unique Medieval Iron Spearhead from Lubanowo
 Bartosz Kontny

10. Palaeoecological Studies of Lake Piłakno Micro-region, Mrągowo Lakeland. Preliminary Results
Małgorzata Mileszczyk, Magdalena Fiłoc, Mirosława Kupryjanowicz, Dominika Kofel, and Magdalena Nowakowska

11. Diving Equipment Used in the 1960s Lake Piłakno Archaeological Research
Małgorzata Mileszczyk and Karina Kowalska