Professor Jonathan R. Adams is Professor of the Maritime Archaeology program at the University of Southampton, UK, and Founding Director of the University’s Centre for Maritime Archaeology.
Adams trained at Durham (BA) and Stockholm (DPhil) Universities, and his research interests center on the processes of innovation and social change, particularly as evidenced through shipbuilding technology and seafaring. He also has a long-term interest in the ethics as well as the theory and methods of deep-water archaeology.
Adams was born in Kent, England, in 1951. Himself a talented artist, Adam’s parents were both artists, and both served in the Navy in WWII. Adams holds a professional mixed-gas and saturation diving qualification and has undertaken several thousand dives. He was a member of the Mary Rose Diving Team, which won Diver Magazine’s Diver of the Year Award in 1983, and in 1994 won the British Sub-Aqua Club’s Colin MacLeod Memorial Medalfor services to international training and...
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References
Adams, J. 2001. Ships and boats as archaeological source material. World Archaeology 32 (3): 292–310.
Adams, J. 2006. Identity, threat and defiance: interpreting the “bulwark”, a 12th century lake building on Gotland, Sweden. Journal of Maritime Archaeology 1 (2): 170–190.
Adams, J.R. 2013. A maritime archaeology of ships. Innovation and social change in late medieval and early modern Europe. Oxbow Books.
Pacheco Ruiz, R., J. Adams, F. Pedrotti, M. Grant, J. Holmlund, and C. Bailey 2019. Deep sea archaeological survey in the Black Sea – Robotic documentation of 2,500 years of human seafaring. Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers 152.
Further Reading
Adams, J.R. 2003. Ships, innovation and social change: Aspects of carvel shipbuilding in Northern Europe 1450–1850. Stockholm studies in archaeology 24 and Stockholm marine archaeology reports 3, Monograph. Stockholm: University of Stockholm.
Adams, J.R. 2013. A maritime archaeology of ships. Innovation and social change in late medieval and early modern Europe. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Adams, J., and J. Rönnby. 2014. Interpreting Shipwrecks: Maritime archaeology approaches. Southampton: Highfield Press.
Adams, J., A.F.L. Van Holk, and Th.J. Maarleveld. 1990. Dredgers and archaeology: Shipfinds from the slufter. Alphen aan den Rijn: Ministerie WVC.
Adams, J., Ronnby, J., Ronnby, J., Hocker, F., Lieno, M., Alvik, R., Wallace, S., Zwick, D., Tornquist, O., Eriksson, N., Arnshav, M., Fors, Y. and Bjordal, C. (eds.) (2013). Interpreting shipwrecks. Maritime archaeological possibilities. (Southampton Monographs in Archaeology; New Series Number 4). Highfield Press, Southampton.
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Rodrigues, J. (2022). Adams, Jonathan. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3150-1
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