Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
By the last glacial maximum approximately 20,000 years ago, 66.8x106 km3 (5%) of the Earth’s water was locked within ice sheets, lowering global sea-levels to approximately 134 meters below modern levels. Lower sea-levels provided a substantial amount of coastal plain for habitation; moreover, nearly 90% of modern human history has taken place during times of lower than modern sea levels. Since the end of the glacial maximum approximately 20 million km2 of coastal landscape has been submerged worldwide, roughly the area of South America. The reintroduction of water into ocean basins radically changed global sea-levels, inland water tables, and littoral landscapes. The inundation of these landscapes has created gaps in the history of human activity around the world. The focus of this session is to explore new technologies, methodology, and submerged site investigations to better understand these now submerged landscapes and the peoples that once called these lands home.
Other Keywords
Underwater •
Submerged •
Submerged Precontact •
Geoarchaeology •
Prehistory •
Remote Sensing •
Underwater Archaeology •
Archaeology •
Survey •
Photogrammetry
Temporal Keywords
PaleoIndian •
Prehistory •
Early Holocene •
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500-7 •
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Geographic Keywords
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) •
Delaware (State / Territory)
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Breaking the Law? A Serious Discussion over Maritime Conveyance over What, Why, and How Archaeological Laws are Interpreted Offshore. (2020)
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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. An increasing problem is occurring offshore, and our maritime heritage is a stake. The true spirit of archaeological laws offshore is challenged: protect and leave, undisturbed, archaeological resources (historical or prehistorical) to the benefit of the protection of cultural heritage of all people...
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Coastally Adapted: A Model for Eastern Coastal Paleoindian Sites (2020)
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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...
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Fish or Flint? A Cursory Examination of a Method for Identifying Buried Lithic Artifacts Underwater (2020)
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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. Recent research has demonstrated the potential for the remote identification of human altered lithic material in underwater contexts. The underlying principle of this method is the ability of low frequency sound waves to resonate within lithic materials of an ideal shape, making the material vibrate....
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A Loam in the Darkness: Investigations at Half Mile Rise Sink (2020)
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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. Half Mile Rise Sink (8TA98) is a submerged prehistoric site located ca. one hundred meters downriver from the Page-Ladson site in the Aucilla River of Northwest Florida. Here, all known Floridian Paleoindian projectile points, Archaic projectile points, and associated paleontological material were...
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Micro-regional Archaeology Underwater: Approaches to Documenting Submerged Prehistoric Sites. (2020)
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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. It is now widely recognized that key portions of the global archaeological record can only be found underwater. While submerged prehistoric sites can yield crucial evidence and often preserve organic remains and other features rarely encountered on land, they pose unique challenges. To investigate these...
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Testing Photogrammetric Methods on Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Florida (2020)
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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. In 2019, members of the Florida Submerged Prehistoric Landscape Archaeological Survey and Heritage project (FSPLASH) tested photogrammetric methods on three submerged prehistoric sites in Florida. Photogrammetric methods have been widely utilized to interpret submerged historic sites; however, this has...
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Twelve Days at Sea: Preliminary Results of the 2019 Geophysical Survey Campaign of Submerged Pre-Contact Landscapes in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (2020)
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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. Sea-level rise models demonstrate that, prior to the last glacial maximum, there was a larger landmass available for pre-contact human habitation in North America. Previous research has identified two landscape features offshore, situated 48 miles apart; both at water depths of 17 m BSL and both dated to...