On the Resonant Signatures of Archaeological Materials: Beyond Lithics
Author(s): Tyler Mullins
Year: 2025
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This is an abstract from the "<html>Twenty Thousand Leagues (and Years!) under the Sea:<i> </i>Exploring the Place of Seashores in Prehistoric Socio-economic Systems</html>" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In the last decade, several articles have detailed the possibility of identifying archaeological sites containing lithics remotely using acoustic resonance. However, limited research has been conducted into understanding resonant signatures of other archaeological materials. Resonant signatures of materials that may also be found on submerged landscapes, such as glass, historic ceramics, fossilized bone, wood, shell ,and others have yet to be assessed. This paper discusses laboratory and modelling trials, conducted in the Geoarchaeology and Submerged Landscapes Lab at the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, on the resonant signatures of these materials as confounding variables in the use of lithic resonance for finding archaeological sites underwater.
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On the Resonant Signatures of Archaeological Materials: Beyond Lithics. Tyler Mullins. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509215)
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