Arqueologia marítima / subaquática da 2ª Guerra Mundial: sua aplicabilidade no Brasil

Abstract

The Twentieth Century was the scene of two World Wars and an undeclared Cold War. Through the collisions emerged, a great wealth of archaeological sites with many typologies from different nations have appareled. The World Wars Archaeology, in a historical context, proposes to study the material evidence remaining of warlike periods, emphasizing the social nature that exists behind the material cultures. Through this study, aims to contribute effectively to the Brazilian Archaeology, bringing to the given context some studies related to the World Wars Archaeology theme in foreign countries providing an initial bibliographical framework about these researches in Brazil. The work shows the scope of theme´s applicability by means of case studies: a survey of shipwrecks sites of Sergipe coast and from cultural materials from them that came to earth - beyond the shipwrecks sites formed by the remains of the ship Itapagé on the coast of Alagoas. The research has a proposal to show the importance for the Archaeology in Brazil for further studies in shipwrecks studies formed by leftovers ships made with iron hulls − in view of nautical archaeological studies involving vessels with these characteristics are unpublished in Brazil.