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DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry L Momber.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sea-level fluctuations have had an impact on humanity from the earliest times, forcing people to move and adapt. While doing so, they have left tools, structures and settlements within inundated landscapes, sealed beneath anaerobic sediment. These artefacts are often exquisitely preserved cultural assets,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott R Sorset. Mark A Rees.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) have collaborated to determine the immediate and long-term impacts of an oil spill on cultural resources and archaeological sites in the coastal zone. Nearly five years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the immediate and long-term impacts of oil and dispersants on cultural resources and archaeological sites remain unknown. Concerns include effects that might diminish or destroy the site’s future...