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Up to now it was a custom to apply historic terms like cog or hulk to late medieval wrecks. In particular the Bremen wreck of 1380 was considered to be a prototype of a cog. By comparing iconographic evidence of cogs and hulks with archaeological fi nds several inconsistencies were discovered. Therefore it seems wiser to omit historic names when analysing shipfinds. Instead, new defi nitions based on archaeological evidence only should be used.

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Before the First World War the Maerkisches Museum in Berlin housed an important collection of fishing equipment including 13 logboats, three of which remain today. These have now been identified, fully documented and scientifically dated, two to the latter part of the 16th century and the third to the mid-Neolithic.

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The paper describes the development of scuba diving in Sweden since its start, and especially tries to estimate the number of scuba divers and the extent of their diving. Thereafter is discussed the relationship between scuba diving interests, as these have developed today, and marine archaeological interests in the Swedish society. Finally are defined the conditions under which the preservation of submerged cultural resources are working, and the influence on such resources of scuba diving of today. Suggestions are made concerning the possibilities to find mutual ground for cooperation between the scuba diving and the carers for marine archaeological remains under water.

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The paper is intended as an introduction into the topic of plant transport and its consequences. It deals primarily with the seaborne transport of live plant matter in the Mediterranean in the period before ca. 500 BC, and also considers the use of plants as decoration on ships. In addition to archaeological and written sources it is botanical remains from shipwrecks as well as land excavations and observations on modern vegetation that bear evidence to this phenomenon.

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The small marble model of a ship found on the Kerameikos of Athens, presents the features of an archaic warship. It bears the ship's name MINOKIA on both sides, it presents a mast fixed in the bow and inclined backwards and it shows traces of having been mounted on a trailer. The existence of the latter two pecularities lent discussion to wether the model could represent the Panathenaic ship. The sources for that famous ship have been put together and a new proposition has been made for the course of events of the Panathenaic procession.