The Potential for Submerged Prehistoric Sites Beneath Pennsylvania’s Lake Erie Waters

Summary

This paper presents the results of a preliminary model of submerged prehistoric site potential within the Pennsylvania portion of Lake Erie. The model takes into account both cultural and natural factors that may have influenced the placement and preservation of archaeological sites. Archaeological data from the current Lake Erie littorals of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York were used to model likely site locations based on known bottom features within Lake Erie, such as drowned shorelines and river channels. Geologic data, drawn from previous remote sensing and coring surveys, were then employed to model erosion and deposition that effect the survival and accessibility of submerged sites. The presentation concludes with a discussion of the potential to test this model.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Geoarchaeology of Submerged, Intertidal, And Wetland Places: Advances In Method And Theory of Prehistoric Archaeology Underwater - 2015   •
• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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