Submerged landscapes (Other Keyword)
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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. Climate reconstruction records show that during the Early Pottery Neolithic Period (henceforth EPN), ca. 8200 years ago, there was a sudden change in the environment, lowering both precipitation amounts and temperatures. This change was thought to have been the cause of the abandonment of the coastal...
Articulating the Big Bend of Florida (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Liquid Landscapes: Recent Developments in Submerged Landscape Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Working from the known to the unknown is a core concept in archaeological prospection and is particularly important in submerged landscapes studies. These landscapes are harder to access and have experienced, potentially, more dramatic changes since they were last occupied. We share here the results of a study in...
Coastally Adapted: A Model for Eastern Coastal Paleoindian Sites (2020)
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. Predicting the cultural material typology of eastern coastal Paleoindians is a challenge due to sea-level rise since the LGM. In the Americas, archaeologists have identified only a handful of unequivocal coastal Paleoindian sites. The location of these sites are on the west coast of the Americas, where...
Geoarchaeology Underwater: Florida State’s Approach to Preparing Students to do Offshore CRM (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Perspectives on the Future, and the Past, of Underwater Archaeology in the Cultural Resource Management Industry" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As offshore wind farm development continues to expand, there is an increasing need for archaeologists with the training and experience to assess our nearshore continental shelves for evidence of drowned landscapes with potential for preserved cultural resources....
Marine geophysics reveals the character of the now submerged Paleo-Agulhas Plain (2015)
This work was undertaken to understand the evolution of the terrestrial landscape now submerged by high sea levels offshore of Mossel Bay. Two marine geophysical surveys and scuba diving were used to examine evidence of past sea-level fluctuations and interpret seafloor geological deposits. Eight seismic sequences characterise the shelf, extending from the Mid-Cretaceous to the Holocene time. Geological mapping dating by Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) revealed that the most prominent...
Narrowing the Search for Late Pleistocene-Aged Submerged Sites on Oregon's Continental Shelf (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Geographic information systems-based modeling of submerged paleolandscapes along the central coast of Oregon, USA combined with offshore geophysical and marine coring studies led to the discovery of multiple submerged and buried alluvial drainage systems dating to the late Pleistocene period. These discoveries highlight the preservation of...
New Insights into a Late Pleistocene Submerged Landscape on the Pacific Coast of South America (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Advances in Global Submerged Paleolandscapes Research" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Identifying evidence of human activity on the continental shelf might prove challenging and employing inductive explanation by collecting data on available evidence represents an initial step to build generalizations. This is the case of the Late Pleistocene site GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1), located in Quintero Bay (32° S), central Chile,...