Testing Photogrammetric Methods on Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Florida
Author(s): Hunter W. Whitehead; Andrew Van Slyke
Year: 2020
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.
In 2019, members of the Florida Submerged Prehistoric Landscape Archaeological Survey and Heritage project (FSPLASH) tested photogrammetric methods on three submerged prehistoric sites in Florida. Photogrammetric methods have been widely utilized to interpret submerged historic sites; however, this has not been the case for submerged prehistoric sites. At the Lewis-McQuinn site (8DI112) in the Suwannee River, the Page-Ladson site (8JE591) in the Aucilla River, and test excavations in the Silver River, each in unique underwater environments with variable sediment types and visibility, divers collected video of geologic profiles and artifacts discovered in situ to test 3D modelling capabilities. The methods of collecting imagery for the creation of photogrammetric models of submerged prehistoric sites and geologic profiles are discussed here. The results from these three riverine environments in Florida demonstrate the promise photogrammetry has for the recording and interpretation of inundated precontact sites.
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Testing Photogrammetric Methods on Submerged Prehistoric Sites in Florida. Hunter W. Whitehead, Andrew Van Slyke. 2020 ( tDAR id: 457069)
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Keywords
General
Photogrammetry
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Prehistoric
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Submerged
Geographic Keywords
United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 726