Overall Oceans of Archaeology provides a widely encompassing corpus of scientific and archaeological studies of the very distant past of human activity, presented in a concise and easy-to-read format with excellent illustrative material. The breadth of experience and expertise of the many contributors has combined to produce a volume that should make muddy footprints, old sticks and discarded animal bones appealing to even the most ardent shipwreck archaeologist and, perhaps more importantly, the archaeologically interested layman.