A Loam in the Darkness: Investigations at Half Mile Rise Sink

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Half Mile Rise Sink (8TA98) is a submerged prehistoric site located ca. one hundred meters downriver from the Page-Ladson site in the Aucilla River of Northwest Florida. Here, all known Floridian Paleoindian projectile points, Archaic projectile points, and associated paleontological material were recovered from excavations during the 1960s. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, I present my results over re-opened investigations at Half Mile Rise Sink in the aim to 1) define the geologic context and 2) discuss Half Mile Rise Sink as a multi-component prehistoric site. Half Mile Rise Sink is a unique site containing multiple cultural components due to fluctuating water levels, presenting the uniqueness of submerged prehistory coupled with terrestrial archaeology to understand what and how past peoples interacted with their landscape.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 734