[First posted in AWOL 28 October 2013, updated (new volumes added) 30 April 2020]
Archaeonautica
eISSN - 2117-6973
Archaeonautica is aimed at
researchers, archaeologists, historians, as well as specialists in
maritime and nautical history and archaeology. Its mission is to publish
studies in submarine and subaquatic archaeology, both French and
foreign, from prehistory to the 19th century.
The journal was founded in 1977 in
response to the lack of a specialist review in France that covered
scientific themes on a larger scale than the simple excavation report.
The chronological spread is wide since the intention is to cover all
periods stretching from prehistory to the contemporary era: actual
contributions run from protohistory up to modern times. Similarly, the
geographic field is not strictly defined, although most of the work
examined concerns the Mediterranean, European internal waterways with
some articles looking at the eastern Atlantic seaboard.
A large part of the review is given
over to publishing excavations of shipwrecks but the collection also
includes more specific studies regarding nautical and harbour
archaeology. Different aspects of economic and maritime history, as well
as the history of attitudes are also tackled through analyses of
literary, iconographic and technical sources.
- 20 | 2018
De re navali : Pérégrinations nautiques entre Méditerranée et océan Indien
Mélanges en l’honneur de Patrice Pomey

Ce volume, écrit par quatorze amis, collègues et
anciens étudiants, est dédié à Patrice Pomey, archéologue naval
spécialiste de l’Antiquité méditerranéenne, directeur de recherche
émérite du CNRS, et qui fut directeur de la Direction des Recherches
Archéologiques Sous-Marines (ministère de la Culture) et du Centre
Camille Jullian (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS). Préfacé par André
Tchernia et introduit par les éditeurs, Giulia Boetto et Éric Rieth, cet
ouvrage comporte qua (...)
This volume, written by fourteen friends, colleagues
and former students, is dedicated to Patrice Pomey, nautical
archaeologist and specialist in the ancient Mediterranean, emeritus
director of research at the CNRS, and former director of the Direction
des Recherches Archéologiques Sous-Marines (French Ministry of Culture)
and of the Centre Camille Jullian (Aix Marseille University, CNRS). With
a preface by André Tchernia and an introduction by the editors, Giulia
Boetto and Éric Rieth, the work is composed of four sections that
reflect the themes to which Patrice Pomey has devoted most of his
career. Five articles bearing on the nautical archaeology of the ancient
Mediterranean make up the first part, while the second features two
contributions looking at nautical iconography.
The four studies of
the third part recall Pomey’s interest in nautical ethnography as well
as his work on the “sewn” boats of Kerala and the boats of Lake Borollos
in Egypt. The fourth and final section is entitled “Varia” and contains
three articles exploring other themes dear to Patrice Pomey:
dendrochronology, the use of study models, and experimental archaeology.
Back list volumes are at Persée:
Archaeonautica
eISSN - 2117-6973
Archaeonautica est une collection créée en 1977 par le CNRS et le Ministère de la Culture à l’initiative de Bernard Liou. Publiée par CNRS Edition, le secrétariat de rédaction de la collection est assuré par le Centre Camille Jullian. Le but de la collection est la publication des recherches d’archéologie sous-marines ou, plus généralement, subaquatique, de la Préhistoire à l’époque moderne. Elle est aussi destinée à accueillir des études d’archéologie maritime et d’archéologie navale, d’histoire maritime et d’histoire économique.