Ports and harbours
A port, a harbour or an anchorage place? Essentially a place to safely moor your boat or ship. These critical points of contact and exchange, interfaces between different cultures, located between land and sea, have been relatively little studied by archaeologists in the past, until recently.
Seminal works on harbours were published by Blackman in 1982 in the International Journal of Nautical Archaeology.
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