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DOCUMENT Citation Only Kara E Davis. Rachel D Moseley. Leila J Hamdan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Ecology of Underwater Cultural Heritage: From Microbial Communities to Macrofauna", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The seafloor contains millions of shipwrecks with diverse provenance. Prior studies show that shipwrecks may support discrete microbiome in surrounding sediments, forming island-like systems for microbes. The specific site and environmental features that support these communities remain...