Micro-regional Archaeology Underwater: Approaches to Documenting Submerged Prehistoric Sites.

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

It is now widely recognized that key portions of the global archaeological record can only be found underwater. While submerged prehistoric sites can yield crucial evidence and often preserve organic remains and other features rarely encountered on land, they pose unique challenges. To investigate these sites Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV), scanning sonar, and 3-D photogrammetry, can usefully be integrated into a layered research design to document sites and features at progressively finer scales. The working of such a layered strategy is illustrated in the context of ongoing underwater research on submerged caribou hunting sites in Lake Huron, in the North American Great Lakes

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Love That Dirty Water: Submerged Landscapes and Precontact Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): 373