In search of submerged Late Glacial prehistoric coastal occupations in the Western Channel: the contribution of acoustic detection of flint assemblages
Author(s): Nicolas Naudinot
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.
Research into late glacial communities in western France has made great progress in the last twenty years. In addition to being able to characterize the technical and symbolic systems of the various prehistoric communities that succeeded one another during this period of profound climatic instability, the data collected today also enable us to begin sketching out socio-economic models from a diachronic perspective. These models, however, remain largely biased by the absence of data on maritime environments and coastal sites, which are now submerged by dozens of meters of water due to a shallowly sloping continental shelf in the English Channel and along the French Atlantic seaboard. It is therefore imperative to take into account these sites and their place in the systems. The aim of this presentation is to present a project currently being envisioned which aims to initiate a multi-stage, submerged landscape campaign in French territorial waters in the Western Channel. Here we review bathymetric data of the study area to identify areas of high potential, with subsequent stages using acoustic site detection methods, sediment coring, and ROV site investigation out to the 100m bathymetric line.
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In search of submerged Late Glacial prehistoric coastal occupations in the Western Channel: the contribution of acoustic detection of flint assemblages. Nicolas Naudinot. Presented at The 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2025 ( tDAR id: 509216)
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Abstract Id(s): 50453