Capacity development is a key tool that can be used to improve maritime archaeological research and underwater cultural heritage protection. Despite numerous capacity development initiatives there has been little written about the theoretical concept of capacity or capacity development in maritime archaeology or even archaeology more generally. This paper borrows a theoretical concept of capacity from the environmental sciences literature and demonstrates how it can be applied to maritime archaeology through the examination of the situation in three case study States: Croatia, Italy and Montenegro. It argues that all aspects of the concept of capacity need to be understood before successful capacity development initiatives can be planned, and that the development of strategies for capacity development could initiate long term positive changes in maritime archaeological capabilities.

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海洋考古能力：分析框架

能力发展是可用于改进海洋考古研究和水下文化遗产保护的关键工具。尽管有许多能力发展举措，但关于海洋考古学甚至更普遍的考古学中能力或能力发展的理论概念的文章很少。本文从环境科学文献中借用了容量的理论概念，并通过对三个案例研究国家（克罗地亚、意大利和黑山）的情况进行检查，展示了如何将其应用于海洋考古学。它认为，在规划成功的能力发展举措之前，需要了解能力概念的所有方面，