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Trends in submerged cultural resource management are moving away from recovery, to management of sites together with their constituent structures, artifacts and deposits, in the environments in which they are found. Although the subject is not well-researched or published (no comprehensive, comparative studies of in situ management strategies for shipwreck site deposits have been carried out), conservation strategies often have been implemented as short-term, stopgap measures. Further, the variety of factors involved in deterioration processes, as well as the complexity of their relationships, are not widely understood or accepted. The recommended conditions for protecting one type of archaeological material or context will not necessarily be conducive to preserving another, and the real effects of even simple stabilization strategies are not fully understood. Finally, inappropriate strategies that do not take account of the actual factors governing the site will inevitably fail.
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Oxley, I., Gregory, D. (2002). Site Management. In: Ruppé, C.V., Barstad, J.F. (eds) International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology. The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0535-8_42
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