Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Changing sea levels have drastically changed the shape and amount of land available for habitation throughout human history. Using modern marine technologies, portions of these formerly exposed landscapes can be identified on or buried below the modern seafloor and data gathered to illustrate what life would have been like in these areas. This session will include papers that present the basis for and results of recent exploration along the northwestern Gulf of Mexico to map and illustrate these landscapes. These papers will summarize the results of predictive modeling, geophysical survey, geotechnical testing, and geoarchaeological analyses conducted offshore of the relict Sabine River Valley, on the Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf. These papers will also address challenges associated with presenting submerged paleolandscapes research to various audiences, and highlight opportunities to engage the next generation of explorers and archaeologists in this research.
Other Keywords
Underwater Archaeology •
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican •
Coastal and Island Archaeology •
Geoarchaeology •
Landscape Archaeology •
Archaic •
Remote Sensing/Geophysics •
Taphonomy and Site Formation
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Building Capacity: Educating and Training Submerged Terrestrial Archaeologists (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In spite of an increased interest in submerged terrestrial landscapes and an increased need for trained professional archaeologists to support offshore energy development projects, educational programs in the advanced survey technologies, analytical software and methodologies, and educational coursework necessary to discover...
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Geophysical Investigations of Submerged Landscapes: Results from the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The authors acquired parametric subbottom and conventional chirp subbottom data over potential submerged and buried landscapes features in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico. The purpose of the study was two-fold: to map out potential preserved features for geotechnical sampling and also to directly compare the efficacy of the...
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Revisiting the Submerged Shell Midden at Sabine Pass: Preliminary Core Results from the NOAA Exploration Mission: Paleolandscapes and the ca. 8000 BP Shoreline on the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over 40 years ago Coastal Environments Inc. pioneered a phased approach to identify prehistoric occupations on the now submerged outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico. This work homed in on a target in the Paleo-Sabine Valley and identified one of the first in situ, submerged prehistoric sites known in the Americas....
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Searching for the Submerged: Five Decades of Research Related to Drowned Prehistoric Sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Coastal Louisiana (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Submerged Paleolandscape Investigations in the Gulf of Mexico" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 1975, personnel at Coastal Environments Inc. have applied a geophysical and geological approach in their search for drowned prehistoric sites on the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico and within marshlands of south Louisiana. Initial efforts culminated in the retrieval of numerous vibracore samples from the...