Collection

Maritime Archaeology and Underwater Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Ibero-American World

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
26 April 2024
Submission deadline
31 May 2025
In recent decades we have witnessed a growing development of maritime and underwater archaeology in the Latin-speaking countries of the Ibero-American space. This wide maritime space, gradually brought into contact for the first time from the middle of the fifteenth century, includes islands and mainland areas with distinct pathways, despite Portuguese and Spanish colonization. This Collection will bring together studies that demonstrate the diversity of perspectives on the archaeological research carried out on contexts from the early-modern and contemporary periods (fifteenth to twentieth centuries), developed from or related to Ibero-American countries. They include methodological and theoretical approaches and case studies on maritime landscapes, ports and port cities, shipwrecks and material culture, and the management and promotion of cultural heritage. These studies contribute to research on globalization and to understanding the construction of the modern world, including the central role of the Oceans for the development of modern societies.

Editors

  • José Bettencourt José Bettencourt , 

    José Bettencourt

    José Bettencourt is Assistant Professor at NOVA University where he teaches Nautical, Underwater and Maritime Archaeology. He is also a researcher at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities (FCSH / NOVA|UAC) and member of the UNESCO Chair The Oceans Cultural Heritage. Since 2000, he has participated in several research projects and rescue archaeology in Europe, Africa and America, with a leading role on underwater surveys and excavations. His research interests are focused on the early modern to modern age Atlantic, including shipbuilding, maritime landscapes and trade and the management of underwater and coastal cultural heritage.

  • Felipe Cerezo Andreo Felipe Cerezo Andreo  &

    Felipe Cerezo Andreo

    Felipe Cerezo Andreo earned his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Murcia, Spain, in 2016, specializing in Harbour Archaeology. Since 2017, he has been a postdoctoral fellow and Assistant Professor (since 2020) in Underwater Archaeology at the University of Cádiz. He coordinates the Master's program in Nautical and Underwater Archaeology and collaborates with UNESCO on regional training programs related to Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH).

  • Nicolás C. Ciarlo Nicolás C. Ciarlo

    Nicolás C. Ciarlo

    Nicolás C. Ciarlo is an experienced maritime archaeologist. In 2016, he completed his PhD in Archaeology at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). Since 2017, he has been a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), working at the Institute of Archaeology (UBA), Argentina. He has participated in 35 funded R+D+I projects in America and Europe, with a leading role in studying post-medieval shipwrecks. His main research interest is the relationship between innovation, conflict and science, focused on how Enlightenment and industrialization impacted watercraft technology in Europe and Spanish America.

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