Maritime Landscapes (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margo Schwadron.

South Florida contains millions of acres of wetlands, subtropical estuaries and prehistoric waterways interconnecting thousands of tree islands and shell work islands, comprising one of the largest and most complex prehistoric maritime landscapes worldwide. Recursive human and natural dynamics shaped these landscapes over deep time, but will soon be lost by rising sea level. Integrated archaeological and paleo-ecological studies are critical to understanding the long term impacts of humans on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Furuta. Filipe Castro. Ergun Akleman. Alicia Kinkaid.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Nuts and Bolts of Ships: The J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory and the future of the archaeology of Shipbuilding" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Originally conceived as a set of internet tools to store and share information and primary data from archaeological excavations, the Nautical Archaeology Digital Library project was retaken a decade later, with the same objectives, but in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tamas Polanyi. Mark Hauser.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Colonial Encounters on the Caribbean Frontier: Archaeology at LaSoye, Dominica", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2017, storm surges exposed archaeological deposits near LaSoye Point located on the north-eastern coast of Dominica. A year later, a small-scale excavation—focusing on the exposed coastal features of the site—revealed remnants of a structure, an extramural activity area, and a wide range of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara A Clark. Sorna Khakzad.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A 2018 study of Northwest Florida’s cultural and natural resources, conducted by the University of West’s Florida Public Archaeology Network, revealed that the area encompasses numerous sites and entities that are significant to understanding the maritime history and cultural landscape of the region. It also highlighted the inadequate level of attention to these resources which has...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maxime Poulain. Jan Trachet. Wim De Clercq.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Re-Visualizing Submerged Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Medieval Bruges has been coined as “the cradle of capitalism”, a place where goods, ideas and people converged into a unique, multicultural environment. A tidal inlet, called the Zwin, linked Bruges to the rest of Europe and beyond and was dotted with several outports at its banks. Natural, political and economic factors all resulted in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin C Wells.

ABSTRACT: With its headwaters in Alabama and terminus in Blackwater Bay, the Blackwater River is the major river of Santa Rosa County, Florida. For centuries this river has played an integral role in the development of northwest Florida as the primary avenue for transporting resources, goods, and people in and out of the interior of this area. In 2013 the Bagdad Waterfronts Florida Partnership, Inc., contacted Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN) Northwest Region office seeking assistance...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant.

Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the Great Lakes were at the center of rapid technological advancements in shipping and shipbuilding. The diverse demands for trade and unique geographic characteristics of the region created the necessity for highly specialized vessels and technologies. While the development of steam propulsion and use of metal hulls aided this progress, advancements in unloading systems helped propel shipping into the twentieth century.  The emergence...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant. James Skibo. Amy Rosebrough. Tamara Thomsen.

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. Wisconsin’s inland waterways have been used as transportation corridors and places to collect resources for thousands of years. Despite this, prehistoric maritime landscapes are often missing from the archaeological record due to a lack of material evidence. Instead, village and ritual sites are simply...