The Law of the Sea Treaty and Underwater Cultural Resources

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ID2105699
AuthorsDavid R Watters (Carnegie Museum of Natural History, corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume48
Issue4
Pages808-816
Publication date1983-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s000273160006892x
OpenAlexW2587567223
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited8

The Convention on the Law of the Sea, the culminating document of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, received favorable votes from 130 States in April 1982. The United States voted against approval. Articles 149 and 303, which address archaeological and historical objects found in various ocean zones, are compromise measures with ambiguous texts that are subject to interpretation. Archaeologists generally, not simply underwater archaeologists, should be concerned with these provisions because they could set an unfortunate precedent for future international negotiations involving cultural resources, and because they may apply to inundated prehistoric sites as well as to shipwrecks

Archaeology · Compromise · Convention · Geography · International law · Interpretation (philosophy) · Law of the sea · Negotiation · Political science · Prehistory · Public international law · Subject (documents) · Territorial waters · Treaty · United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea · History · International Maritime Law Issues · Law · Law, logistics, and international trade · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

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