The Importance of Marine Archaeology

The main focus of marine archaeology is on shipwrecks, from relatively recent history There needs to be a much more comprehensive survey of the continental shelves Before we can write off the possibility of a civilisation destroyed in that cataclysm. Then you've got the 9 million square kilometres of the Sahara Desert And then there's the Amazon rainforest Now, it used to be about 7 million square kilometres But these horrific clearances have brought it down to closer to 5 5 to 6 million square kilometres are still untouched under canopy rainforest. This is another area where only very minimal archaeology has been done and for archaeology to claim that it knows everything about our past is a terrible oversight.