From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2024
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "From Whalers to World War II: Guam Underwater Archaeology," at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Federal agencies, non-profits, and universities have recently undertaken multiple studies on the island of Guam to locate and document previously unrecorded underwater archaeological sites on federal and state submerged bottom lands. The island is the ancestral home of the CHamoru people, which has been occupied by Spain, Japan, or the United States since 1521, resulting in abundant cultural resources, ranging from indigenous sites of the CHamoru people to whaling shipwrecks and remnants of World War II’s amphibious invasion. This session focuses on the research, methodology, and results of these investigations.
Other Keywords
World War II •
Guam •
Whaling •
Shipwreck •
WWII •
Remote Sensing •
Analysis •
Survey •
Gis •
Wrecks
Geographic Keywords
Pacific •
Guam •
Western Pacific •
Northeast Florida •
Alaska, Aleutian Islands •
Europe/Pacific •
The Marshall Islands •
Hawaii, Pacific
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-10 of 10)
- Documents (10)
- Artillery and Anomalies: Marine Remote-sensing off Guam’s WWII Invasion Beaches (2024)
- Asia and Les Baleiniers: A History of Jeremiah Winslow and French Efforts to Encourage a Whaling Industry out of Le Havre in the Early 19th Century (2024)
- The CHamoru People of Guam: Their overlooked World War II Experiences and Impacts Caused by the American Invasion (2024)
- Expedition Asia: Investigations of a 19th Century Wooden Shipwreck in Apra Harbor, Guam (2024)
- A Levels of War and GIS Approach to Analyzing the Battle of Roi-Namur (2024)
- National Park Service Battlefield Survey of War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Guam: A Biogeographic and Maritime Cultural Landscape Exploration (2024)
- Searching for WWII Naval Heritage in the St. Johns River: the 2022 Survey at Green Cove Springs (2024)
- Trying Out a Name: Using Whaling-related Artifacts to Ascertain a Ship’s Identity (2024)
- The World War II Conflict Landscape of South Maui (2024)
- The Wreck and the Williwaw: Archival Identification of a World War II Shipwreck in the Aleutian Islands (2024)