Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2024

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes," at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The study of submerged and coastal landscapes encompasses a broad range of cultural, geographical, geological and imagined spaces. Defining what makes any landscape is an inherently complex and difficult undertaking, especially in those spaces where the landscape has changed and we are attempting to reconstruct and communicate as many elements of the past as possible. Archaeological approaches to landscapes are all unique in their perspectives, research designs, and theoretical considerations, it is important to put these studies in conversation with one another to contribute to broader understandings of submerged and coastal landscapes. This session invites presentations that illustrate the unique elements for each landscape that maritime archaeologists examine and focus on innovative methods and theories to avoid overgeneralized interpretations of these cultural landscapes.

Other Keywords
Climate Change • Mexico • National Register of Historic Places • Climate • Theory • Caribbean Archaeology • Geophysical • Lake • landscapes • Submerged

Geographic Keywords
Gulf of Mexico • Caribbean • Mexico • Great Lakes • Southern California, USA • Thailand/Southeast Asia/Pacific Rim • NW Europe/Middle East • Pacific Northwest, Oregon, Willamette Valley, USA

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  • Afterworlds: Grief, Absence, Haunting, and Remembrance in Post-Tsunami Phuket (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Moon K. Pankam.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. What does it mean to be haunted in a space of recurrent disaster and destruction? During this program session, I will explore how understandings of death, grief, absence, and material/immaterial haunting have developed in Phuket, Thailand in the years since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. I will also examine where these...

  • Examining Power and Climate Responses in the Pre-Columbian Coastal Landscapes of Northern Puerto Rico (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Eric Rodriguez-Delgado.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Throughout Caribbean prehistory, the construction of public architecture in ceremonial contexts is linked to expressions of status and power over local communities and resources. The appearance of these features such as mounds and ballcourts (bateyes) are largely associated with the Early to Late Ceramic Period – broadly defined...

  • Geophysical Methods for Identifying Submerged Archaeological Sites Using Inland Reservoirs of Oregon (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only James B. Futty. Jillian M. Maloney. Shannon A. Klotsko. Boe J. Derosier. Teresa A. Wriston. Molly R. Casperson. JD L. Lancaster.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Inland reservoirs provide a unique opportunity to study submerged terrestrial landscapes and archaeological sites. These reservoirs, with their annual in-fill and drawdown cycles, serve as natural laboratories that mimic the processes of marine transgression and regression on shorter timescales. Our study focuses on geophysical...

  • Interconnected Approaches and Submerged Landscapes - Setting the Scene Through The Lens of Theory (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren Clark.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. It is easy to forget the fact that the ability to access submerged sites has come relatively recently within the field of archaeology. Because of this, we often find ourselves seeking to drive the field forward through the development of new methods and technologies. While it will always be imperative that maritime archaeologists...

  • The Madeira Shipwreck Within A Lake Superior Maritime Cultural Landscape (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only David Mather.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The steel schooner-barge Madeira was among the first of Minnesota’s Lake Superior shipwrecks to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places, in 1992. Easily accessible to divers and at times visible from shore, the wreck has long been a popular destination. The dramatic events of the infamous 1905 Mataafa storm and the...

  • Mapping the San Dieguito Paleochannel and Younger Dryas Landscape (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret A Morris. Isabel Rivera-Collazo. John A Hildebrand.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. We examine the submerged continental shelf of southern California to expand our baseline knowledge of the local environment throughout the late Pleistocene and Holocene when humans migrated along the Pacific Coast. We investigate a now-submerged channel offshore the present-day San Dieguito Lagoon in Del Mar, California, focusing...

  • Out Of Europe Or Out Of Africa; Different Landscapes, Different Times But The Same Opportunities. (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Garry L Momber.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Human colonisation and dispersal out of Africa and to the far reaches of Europe followed major inter-glacial events as the climate warmed, but before the ice thawed and sea level rose. The relationship of the archaeology with the landscape that was left behind provides a cultural and datable resource that can be interrogated to...

  • Paleolandscape Reconstrution of the 9,000 year old Coastline in the Gulf of Mexico with the Peerside Program (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Shawn Joy.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2022 the Peerside Program was founded at the Florida Institute of Oceanography. Peerside's mission is to broaden access and ongoing involvement with Earth's ocean environment through an innovative program that increases and sustains social, educational, technical, and professional support and building community for ocean...

  • A Review of Paleocoastal Research on the Yucatan Peninsula (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dominique Rissolo. Patricia Beddows.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The carbonate platform and shallow continental shelf of the Yucatan Peninsula supported the rise of the northern lowland Maya and the earlier dispersal of Paleoamerican peoples. Exploration in the region’s now-submerged caves has revealed the remains of early human inhabitants as well as diverse and well preserved faunal and...

  • Shells and Shifting Shorelines: Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in the Western Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Hope Bridgeman. Emma Graumlich. Kaitlin Decker. Ramie A Gougeon. Amanda Evans. August Costa.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. A NOAA grant funded project was designed to create baseline characterizations of the now-submerged paleolandscape associated with the shoreline stand ca. 8,000 yrs BP that would have been available to early human populations in the northwestern portion of the Gulf of Mexico’s (GOM) northwestern outer continental shelf (OCS)....

  • The Submerged Precontact Landscape of Saint Croix, USVI (2024)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Trevor H Gittelhough. Olivia Thomas.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Approaches to Submerged and Coastal Landscapes", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The advancement of maritime cultural landscapes has grown every year since its inception, but its focus has often been focused on the historic landscape while neglecting the prehistoric landscape. There are however, attempts in rectifying this throughout the world. Research during the summer of 2023 on Saint Croix, USVI, was one...