Maritime or marine archeology is a particular area of ​​archeology that deals with studying the interaction between man and the aquatic and coastal environment of seas and oceans through the analysis of archaeological remains and anthropogenic changes in the landscape. The methodological applications of this discipline, done underwater or in a humid environment, fall within the scope of underwater archeology. It is one of the sectors of archaeological research whose object is the study of human actions in the past in aquatic contexts and whose methodologies are strictly connected with the availability of suitable technical instruments.