This issue covers nautical and underwater archaeology, including Carl Olof Cederlund on recording methods used in the investigation of merchant shipwrecks at Jutholmen and Älvsnabben; Robert Sténuit and Alain Fink on the wreck of the Dutch warship Curaçao, lost off Shetland in 1729 while convoying returning East Indiamen; Alexander Flinder on the ancient harbour, anchorage and marine defence installations of Jezirat Fara'un; and Nancy M. Farriss and Arthur G. Miller on maritime culture contact of the Maya through underwater surveys and test excavations in Quintana Roo, Mexico. Notes and News includes Jane C. Biers and Sally Humphreys on ships from Etruria; Bojidar Dimitrov on anchors from the ancient ports of Sozopol; and K. Simpson, H. Hall, R. Davis and R. Larn on an early 17th-century wreck near Rill Cove, Kynance, Cornwall. The issue also contains news, reviews, notices, and books and periodicals received.

Carl Olof Cederlund Robert Sténuit Alain Fink Alexander Flinder Nancy M. Farriss

The international Journal of Nautical archaeology and Underwater Exploration (May 1977, Volume 6, number 2)