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International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH)

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The International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH) (http://icuch.icomos.org/) is the committee of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) that addresses issues relating to the (international) protection and management of underwater cultural heritage. As such it is both an ICOMOS International Scientific Committee and ICOMOS’s taskforce for the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001). ICUCH has a global membership of professionals and has the mission to assist UNESCO in promoting the protection and sound ethical management of underwater cultural heritage. It focuses on international cooperation, legislative issues, and quality standards for interventions and training and closely cooperates with regional and topical NGOs in raising public awareness and counteracting the detrimental PR and activities of the treasure-hunting industry.

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References

  • Henderson, G. 1993. Between the devil and the deep blue sea: Maritime archaeology and museums. The Bulletin of the Australian Institute for Maritime Archaeology 17: 45.

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Further Reading

  • Dromgoole, S., ed. 2006. The protection of the underwater cultural heritage: National perspectives in light of the UNESCO Convention 2001. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff.

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  • Grenier, R., D. Nutley & I. Cochran. (ed.) 2006. Underwater cultural heritage at risk: Managing natural and human impacts. Paris: ICOMOS. Available at: http://www.international.icomos.org/risk/2006/fulldocan.pdf. Accessed 14 Jul 2018.

  • Maarleveld, Th.J. 2011. Ethics, underwater cultural heritage, and international law. In The Oxford handbook of maritime archaeology: Chapter 40, ed. A. Catsambis, B. Ford, and D.L. Hamilton. New York: Oxford University Press.

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  1. Maritime Archaeology Programme, University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Thijs J. Maarleveld

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Maarleveld, T.J. (2018). International Committee on the Underwater Cultural Heritage (ICUCH). In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_550-2

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