Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vincent Gaffney.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After more than thirty years of study, palaeolandscapes research in the southern North Sea, usually referred to as Doggerland, has moved from the status of niche interest to an increasingly strategic area of investigation. Drivers for such a development includes the need to develop coastal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John O'Shea.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Constructed features of stone, wood, and other materials are increasingly recognized as a common feature of hunter-gatherer subsistence economies. Such constructions are used to increase both the certainty and quantity of captured animal resources. The detection of constructed features in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brendan Nash.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The South Gap site (20AA232) is a hunting location most likely for targeting caribou ~55 kilometers offshore from mainland Michigan on the Alpena-Amberley Ridge. The site features a sinuous esker that runs north – south and serves as a natural drive line that channeled migrating caribou along a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jens Auer.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2021, geologists discovered a curious, almost 1km long stone wall in 21m of water off the German coast in the Baltic. The structure is situated on basal till in close proximity to the shoreline of a sunken lake, and exhibits a number of characteristics that point to an anthropogenic, rather...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Reynolds.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project utilizes a Virtual Reality simulation of an ancient environment currently submerged underneath Lake Huron. The simulation was originally designed to help predict the location of ancient occupational remains of early Holocene hunter-gatherers. The system has been repurposed to provide...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Smith.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the course of two preliminary field seasons in 2023 and 2024, sub-bottom SONAR surveys in Lake Huron have uncovered a series of previously unknown stratified deposits and resonance signatures indicating the presence possible paleoenvironmental records and submerged archaeological sites,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yucheng Wang.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) is emerging as a powerful tool for analyzing genetic information from organisms across the tree of life, dating back millions of years. The cold, undisturbed, anaerobic, water-sealed conditions of submerged archaeological sites provide ideal preservation for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Boyd.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Laurentian Great Lakes experienced profound fluctuations in lake levels following deglaciation in response to climate change, isostatic adjustment, and meltwater routing. At the same time, these water bodies acted as magnets for past hunter-gatherer populations, resulting in archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ashley Lemke.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the most significant planetary changes since the Pleistocene has been fluctuating water levels. Changes in sea level, particularly since the last glacial maximum left vast landscapes once exposed and now submerged. Paleoenvironmental research and modeling of submerged landscapes has shown...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Stewart.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Caribou Inuit on the Canadian tundra camped where the barrenground caribou were expected to come – on migratory routes, especially at crossings on the Kazan River in the summer and fall. Camp locations were subject to change from year to year, even though many places are considered ‘traditional’...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Danielle Macdonald.

This is an abstract from the "Hunting for Hunters, Underwater: Results and Future Directions for Submerged Ancient Sites" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Identifying use-wear traces on lithics from submerged sites presents unique and intriguing challenges. Currently, there are limited taphonomic studies that explore the impact of lacustrine depositional environments on the preservation of wear traces, complicating the interpretation of traces...