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

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • Delaware (State / Territory) • Georgia (State / Territory) • Mississippi (State / Territory) • Tennessee (State / Territory) • North Carolina (State / Territory) • Kentucky (State / Territory) • West Virginia (State / Territory) • Virginia (State / Territory)

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Documents
  1. Articulating the Big Bend of Florida (2023)
  2. Building a Long-Term Underwater Economy Advancing Technology, Ecology, and Cultural Resources (BLUE TEC) (2023)
  3. Evidence of Mid-Holocene Environmental Change at the Submerged Archaeological Site, Manasota Key Offshore, Florida (2023)
  4. Late Pleistocene Deposits in Lake George, Florida (2023)
  5. Lithic Technological Organization at 8JE1796: A Perspective from Apalachee Bay, Florida (2023)
  6. Paleoshoreline Reconstruction: A First Approximation to Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes of Isla Espíritu Santo, Mexico (2023)
  7. Searching for Late Pleistocene Deposits: Recent Geoarchaeological Investigations of the Aucilla River, Florida (2023)
  8. The South Gap Site: A 9,000-Year-Old Submerged Hunting Site in Lake Huron with Far Reaching Connections (2023)
  9. The Use of Marine Magnetics to Study Submerged Archaeological Deposits in Shallow Water (2023)
  10. What Is Going On with the Younger Dryas in Florida? Late Pleistocene Perspectives from the Aucilla Basin (2023)