Next Generation of Explorers: Training Submerged Terrestrial Archaeologists

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Interest in submerged landscapes has received greater attention in the last decade in large part because of the increasing availability of the technology required to access submerged archaeological sites. However, training in the technologies, analyses, and even contexts needed to discover and interpret submerged sites remains in a nascent stage of development. A recent NOAA grant included high-impact educational practices aimed at bridging this gap. A team of graduate students were offered mentorship and training in basic analytical techniques. Their new skills were applied to the processing of core samples taken from the western Gulf of Mexico and they will be contributing to a research paper on the results. Additionally, a course in submerged terrestrial archaeology was offered to professionals and students in August 2022. Alongside overviews of cultural historical contexts and submerged site modeling and discovery, course participants discussed what a successful submerged terrestrial higher educational program might include.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Attention this is a Submergency: Incorporating Global Submerged Records   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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