The Contribution of Drowned Landscapes to Understanding Past Peoples
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2018
Archaeology relies on the interpretation of landscapes to place sites, cultural features, and artifacts in their appropriate contexts. Understanding these contexts is difficult when environmental and climatic changes hide drowned landscapes from view. Conversely, underwater environments can provide valuable benefits such as increased organic preservation, clear stratigraphy, limited post-depositional alterations, and enhanced chronological control. This symposium explores the challenges archaeologists face when working on drowned landscapes as well as the range of new information these rich environments have provided. Papers presenting methodology and results for underwater landscape surveys, site testing and exploration, and underwater excavation of terrestrial sites demonstrate the growing importance of this area of research. With sites ranging across human history, explorations of underwater landscapes and drowned terrestrial sites are invaluable for current and future archaeological research.
Other Keywords
Geoarchaeology •
Underwater •
Cave •
hydrology •
geomorphology •
Maya •
Underwater Archaeology •
Burial Site •
Inundated Terrestrial Sites •
Belize
Temporal Keywords
Prehistoric •
PaleoIndian •
Middle Archaic •
Paleoamerican •
Paleoindian, early archaic •
Paleoindian-Woodland •
Late Pleistocene and Maya Terminal Classic Period (AD 600-925). •
Pre-1400
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Coahuila (State / Territory) •
New Mexico (State / Territory) •
Oklahoma (State / Territory) •
Arizona (State / Territory) •
Texas (State / Territory) •
Sonora (State / Territory) •
United States of America (Country) •
Chihuahua (State / Territory) •
Nuevo Leon (State / Territory)
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- Documents (9)
- Giant Sloths, Ancient Maya Jars, and the Cave of the Black Mirror: Underwater Cenote Research at the Cara Blanca Pools, Belize (2018)
- Hoyo Negro: The Formation and Transformation of a Submerged Late Pleistocene Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico (2018)
- A Mammoth Question: Can We Count the First Floridians Among the First Americans? (2018)
- Manasota Key Offshore: A Prehistoric Cemetery in the Gulf of Mexico (2018)
- Paleoenvironmental Data From Blackwater Bay, Santa Rosa County, Florida (2018)
- State of the Art: Reconstructing paleolandscapes for maritime CRM projects (2018)
- Submerged Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Sites in the Aucilla River Basin, Florida: What Can They Tell Us About Early Cultures We Could Not Learn Elsewhere? (2018)
- The Trouble With The Curve: Reassessing The Gulf of Mexico Sea-Level Rise Model (2018)
- Underwater in the High Desert: Exploring Site Presence and Preservation on Drowned and Buried Lake Features (2018)