Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2023
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records," at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Research into the social and physical changes of submerged environments since the last glacial maximum have benefited from advances in methodological applications and theoretical perspectives. Though submerged landscapes are an integral part of underwater cultural heritage, they are often the least studied, the hardest to find, and the most difficult to document. These ancient environments, from offshore continental shelves to inland rivers and lakes, hold the potential to greatly contribute to our understanding of past human experiences, and we as archaeologists have the opportunity to revisit the cultural material of the people who inhabited these spaces. Data from inundated landscapes is essential for providing a holistic picture of the past, and individual presenters within this session will provide regional records and highlight unique projects with the ultimate goal of integrating and managing archaeological records between land and sea.
Other Keywords
Paleolandscapes •
Offshore Wind •
Education •
Historical Archaeology •
Material Culture •
Underwater Archaeology •
Geophysics •
Submerged Resources •
Training •
Submerged
Geographic Keywords
North America •
Wisconsin •
Australasia •
Southeast United States •
Greece, Eastern Mediterranean •
Carmel Coast, Israel •
Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf •
NW Europe
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Ancient Coastal Resource Management in the Face of Climate Change During the Early Pottery Neolithic- A Case Study from Habonim North, Israel (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Climate reconstruction records show that during the Early Pottery Neolithic Period (henceforth EPN), ca. 8200 years ago, there was a sudden change in the environment, lowering both precipitation amounts and temperatures. This change was thought to have been the cause of the abandonment of the coastal...
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Global Offshore Wind: Consideration of Cumulative Effects for Archaeological Resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Offshore wind developments globally, have increased dramatically as the EU and the US aim for 2050 carbon neutrality. The US has signed EOs calling for a "new American infrastructure and clean energy economy" and for 30 gigawatts of Offshore Wind by 2030. These developments are beholden to federal...
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A History of Archaeological Thought of Submerged Paleolandscapes, 1006-2023 (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. People have been observing submergence and finding underwater sites for centuries. Early examples of Abbot Ealdred of St. Albans (1006), Nâsir-i-Khusrau (1047), and Benjamin of Tudela (1173), reveal how Christian, Muslim, and Jewish worldviews informed interpretations of submerged sites, as Renaissance...
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The Human-Altered Lithic Detection System (HALD) in Real-World Situations, Acoustically Mapping of Submerged Pre-contact Sites in the Gulf of Mexico (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Offshore wind is increasingly essential in reducing carbon footprints and improving energy security. Improving the industry’s capabilities in cultural preservation is critical for renewable energy development. The human-altered lithic detection (HALD) method of mapping submerged archaeological sites has...
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Next Generation of Explorers: Training Submerged Terrestrial Archaeologists (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Interest in submerged landscapes has received greater attention in the last decade in large part because of the increasing availability of the technology required to access submerged archaeological sites. However, training in the technologies, analyses, and even contexts needed to discover and interpret...
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Revisiting the Submerged Settlement at Methoni: Current and Ongoing Research of the Methoni Bay (Greece) Paleoenvironmental and Cultural Heritage Project (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Methoni Bay, in the Southwest corner of the Peloponnese, Greece, provides an excellent case study for research into how cultural landscapes interact with natural landscapes. The aim of the University of Patras – University of California, San Diego Methoni Bay Paleoenvironmetnal and Cultural Heritage...
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Submerged landscapes on the Sahul shelf: Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental reconstructions (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Within maritime archaeology the notion of the sea as a barrier has been replaced with discussion of connecting seas and nowhere is this more important than in discussions of movement of people through Wallacea into Sahul in deep time. Understanding of movement and activity within this region necessitates...
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Using the Underwater Cultural Heritage to Understand Coastal Change (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Sea-level fluctuations have had an impact on humanity from the earliest times, forcing people to move and adapt. While doing so, they have left tools, structures and settlements within inundated landscapes, sealed beneath anaerobic sediment. These artefacts are often exquisitely preserved cultural assets,...
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What's Canoe With You?: Understanding Wisconsin's Inland Prehistoric Maritime Landscapes (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Wisconsin’s inland waterways have been used as transportation corridors and places to collect resources for thousands of years. Despite this, prehistoric maritime landscapes are often missing from the archaeological record due to a lack of material evidence. Instead, village and ritual sites are simply...