Liquid Landscapes: Recent Developments in Submerged Landscape Archaeology

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Liquid Landscapes: Recent Developments in Submerged Landscape Archaeology" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The study of submerged landscapes has accelerated in popularity necessitated by a need for practitioners in cultural resource management (CRM), increasing student interest, and expanding opportunities for study at colleges and universities globally. The increased interest in the topic has led to methodological advancement and refinement and has promoted the study of inundated archaeological sites in multiple geographic regions and cultural time periods. Additionally, the increasing study of submerged landscapes has brought attention to missing, or absent, datasets that can only be located through underwater prospection. This session will showcase data from current submerged landscape projects to bring together varying perspectives on the study of these sites from myriad geological and environmental settings around the world. Posters will variably highlight methodological advancement, evolving theoretical frameworks, contributions to regional culture histories, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, descendant community involvement, industry applications, and future directions of the discipline.

Other Keywords
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican • Geoarchaeology • Underwater Archaeology • Landscape Archaeology • Archaic • Obsidian • Cultural Resource Management • Paleoethnobotany • Submerged • Settlement patterns

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  • Articulating the Big Bend of Florida (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cook Hale. Nathan Hale.

    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...

  • Building a Long-Term Underwater Economy Advancing Technology, Ecology, and Cultural Resources (BLUE TEC) (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy.

    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. Offshore wind is increasingly vital as the United States intensifies efforts to reduce its carbon footprint and improve energy security through renewable energy. Currently, the time and cost of planning, permitting, and building offshore energy projects are daunting, and mitigation for these projects is in its...

  • Evidence of Mid-Holocene Environmental Change at the Submerged Archaeological Site, Manasota Key Offshore, Florida (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Angelina Perrotti. Ryan Duggins.

    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. The Manasota Key Offshore (MKO) site is submerged under the gulf of Mexico off the shore of Manasota Key, Florida. This site, which was occupied over 7,000 years ago, provides a unique opportunity to investigate the effects of early Holocene environmental change on hunter-gatherers, particularly relating to...

  • Late Pleistocene Deposits in Lake George, Florida (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Thulman.

    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. In 2006, a Suwannee Paleoindian site was reported by local collectors in Lake George, Florida’s second largest lake. Although destroyed, the site changed our understanding of Paleoindian distributions in the state. Since then, the Archaeological Research Cooperative has conducted surface and sub-bottom surveys of...

  • Lithic Technological Organization at 8JE1796: A Perspective from Apalachee Bay, Florida (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Smith. Shawn Joy.

    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. Lithic technological organization (LTO) approaches are used to understand how stone tool making societies provision themselves with regards to raw material in a given environment. How societies provision themselves provides insight into their adaptive strategies for a landscape. 8JE1796, Clint’s Scallop Hole, is a...

  • Paleoshoreline Reconstruction: A First Approximation to Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes of Isla Espíritu Santo, Mexico (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Mayra Robles Montes. Enrique Nava-Sánchez. Guillermo Martínez-Flores.

    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. Ancient coastline modeling is an effective method for reconstructing submerged prehistoric landscapes, allowing us to understand the human use of the coastal zone through time. Here we present data from Espíritu Santo Island, one of the oldest human settlement areas in the Baja California Peninsula. This study...

  • Searching for Late Pleistocene Deposits: Recent Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Aucilla River, Florida (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Bentley.

    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. Within the mid-channel sinkholes of the modern Aucilla River in northwest Florida, dozens of late Pleistocene archaeological sites lie inundated in both surficial and buried contexts. Despite four decades of dedicated research, however, only three of these sites have been securely dated with geoarchaeological...

  • The South Gap Site: A 9,000-Year-Old Submerged Hunting Site in Lake Huron with Far Reaching Connections (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendan Nash. John O'Shea. Ashley Lemke.

    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. The South Gap site is at a depth of 105 feet beneath Lake Huron on a submerged landscape referred to as the Alpena Amberly Ridge (AAR). Once exposed as dry land between 11,000 and 8000 cal BP, the AAR provided a causeway for migrating animals, such as caribou, to cross the Lake Huron basin. The landform also...

  • The Use of Marine Magnetics to Study Submerged Archaeological Deposits in Shallow Water (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Justine Buchler.

    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. Marine geophysics has been increasingly used to identify and study submerged landscapes and the archaeology thereof. Techniques such as side-scan sonar and sub-bottom profiling have been used to locate submerged archaeological deposits. Marine magnetics offer another method that can be used in the study of...

  • What Is Going On with the Younger Dryas in Florida? Late Pleistocene Perspectives from the Aucilla Basin (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessi Halligan.

    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. The Aucilla River basin in northwestern Florida contains 92 recorded sites with components predating 9000 cal BP, making it an excellent area in which to examine terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene landscape use. More importantly, some of these sites, all drowned terrestrial localities, contain strata with...