The three universities involved in this project (UBO, Cadiz univ. and Kiel univ.) have in common
that they are developing an interdisciplinary archaeological approach aimed at understanding
past coastal societies. There is therefore a real coherence in bringing us together around a
project on this theme.
The questions we wish to address in this project concern the study of past coastal societies; the
aim is to pool our respective experiences and knowledge of these societies, whether they live
along the Atlantic Ocean (UBO, Cadiz, Kiel), the Mediterranean Sea (Cadiz, Kiel, UBO) or the
Baltic Sea (Kiel). It will be necessary to address more precisely, depending on the geographical
areas, the issues related to the adaptability and resilience of coastal societies over the long
term in the face of environmental changes, to which will be added for more recent periods
political or economic changes. Finally, human-environment interactions in the maritime
context will be analysed on points such as resource exploitation, the mobility of human groups
or the notion of insularity… We are aiming at developing a consistent and theory based
research frame of maritime archaeology, drawing on the full power of interdisciplinary and
providing a tool for interconnecting the research done at different universities and to combine
different approaches
