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Definition of Maritime Archaeology
Knowledge of the development of human culture or cultures is not only known through data that can be expressed in writing as evidence of learning the language of historians, butalso from the evidence that the object occupied by the archaeologists. While knowledge about the overall culture studied by anthropologists. History, archaeology and anthropologyis the science of siblings (sisters discilines) are trying to learn the culture in artiluas, bothdiachronic and synchronic. History of shipping or maritime trade of the past for examplewould not be complete without a review of a number of sunken ships and maritime cargoand objects of cultural communities that are still alive.
Known in Indonesia in understanding the scope of Underwater Archaeology is actually slightly narrower than the Maritime archeology. If the studies focus on the underwater archaeology of cultural objects past the sink, then the Maritime Archaeological studies of human interactions with marine lakes, and rivers. This interaction was studied by archaeological studies of material culture of maritime objects. Objects that include cargoships, existing facilities on the beach, even the human skeleton. In addition toconcentrating on the shipwreck site on the sea floor, since 1980 the site also learned that the ship aground on the beach, in the form of burial sites where the ship lay dead and a number of provisions of the grave.