Knowledge about the development of human culture or cultures not only be known through the data that can be expressed in writing as a learned daribukti historians, but also from bukt-proof form of objects that occupied by the archaeologists. While pengertahuan about the culture of the society as a whole was studied by anthropologists. History, archeology and anthropology are sciences brothers (sisters discilines) that seeks to study the culture in artiluas, both diachronic and synchronic. History of shipping or maritime trade of the past for example would not be complete without a review of a number of sunken ships and objects of maritime cargo and cultural communities who are still alive.

Known in Indonesia in understanding the scope of Underwater Archaeology is actually slightly narrower than the Maritime archeology. If the study of underwater archeology focus on cultural objects past the sink, then the Maritime archaeological study of human interaction with the sea, lakes and rivers. These interactions are studied with the archaeological study of material culture of maritime objects. Objects that include ship cargo ship, the existing facilities on the beach, even the human frame. In addition to concentrating on the shipwreck site on the sea floor, since 1980 the site also learned that the ship stranded on the beach, in the form of the grave site where the ship lay dead and a number of provisions grave.

The term archaeological or also known as the review is an ancient science that make the study of prehistoric cultures by excavation and the decomposition of the remains of impressions. Archaeology in the present merangkumi various related fields and various. For example, the discovery of the bodies which will be planted to attract experts from various fields to learn about the clothing and the type of materials used, shape Ceramic and dissemination, through the belief of what was interred with the corpse, chemists are able to determine the age of tread elements such as digging through pereputan carbon 14, a genetic expert who wants to know the movement of early humans, and various other fields.