Prehistoric Archaeology Underwater: A Nascent Subdiscipline Critical to Understanding Early Coastal Occupations and Migration Routes

Gusick, Amy E.; Faught, Michael K.

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“…When referring to the Americas or the New World, research reviews on marine submerged prehistoric archaeology have addressed basically projects conducted in North America Gusick and Faught 2011;Johnson and Stright 1992;Masters and Flemming 1983). This is not surprising, since in South America with very rare exceptions, (Bayon and Politis, this volume) early submerged prehistoric sites are virtually unknown, and thus the investigation of the archaeological potential of the Pacific continental shelf is practically nonexistent.…”

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Submerged Paleolandscapes: Site GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1) and the First Evidences from the Pacific Coast of South America

Carbias

Cartajena

Simonetti

et al. 2014

Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf

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Submerged Paleolandscapes: Site GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1) and the First Evidences from the Pacific Coast of South America

Carbias

Cartajena

Simonetti

et al. 2014

Prehistoric Archaeology on the Continental Shelf

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“…There have also been significant advances in archaeological research on submerged or partially submerged archaeological sites (Figure 1), from shipwrecks to drowned terrestrial sites (see Bailey and Flemming 2008;Bailey et al 2007;Benjamin et al 2011;Catsambis et al 2011;Elder et al 2014;Faught and Gusick 2011;Flemming et al 2014;Gusick and Faught 2011). In Recent Progress, Trends, and Developments Europe alone, the Submerged Prehistoric Landscapes and Archaeology of the Continental Shelf (SPLASHCOS) project compiled data on more than 2,500 submerged archaeological sites.…”

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Recent Progress, Trends, and Developments in Island and Coastal Archaeology

Fitzpatrick

Rick

Erlandson

2015

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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In the first issue of the Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology published 10 years ago, Erlandson and Fitzpatrick (2006) outlined eight topics which demonstrated why island and coastal archaeology were relevant to understanding a host of issues related to human cultural and biological evolution across time and space. Here, we evaluate recent trends and developments in island and coastal archaeology and discuss how research over the last decade has changed and continued to illuminate the antiquity of maritime adaptations, human dispersals, historical ecology, and many other issues on a global scale. With rising seas and marine erosion threatening island and coastal archaeological sites around the world, archaeologists face urgent challenges in the coming decades as we continue to promote research and conservation of the global island and coastal archaeological record.There are times when the ocean is not the ocean-not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy and danger: ferocity on a scale only gods can summon. It hurls itself at the island, sending spray

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“…Even when submerged sites are relatively well preserved, data recovery is difficult and expensive. The factors that affect underwater site preservation and destruction are highly localized, and models should be altered to accommodate for regional factors as they are identified (see also Evans et al 2014 and papers therein;Gregory 2012;Gusick and Faught 2011;Oxley 1998).…”

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Cultural Heritage at Risk in the Twenty-First Century: A Vulnerability Assessment of Coastal Archaeological Sites in the United States

Reeder-Myers

2015

The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

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Twenty-first-century global warming poses a significant threat to the cultural heritage of coastal regions, but the effects of sea-level rise and changing weather patterns will not be evenly distributed. In addition, continued urban, agricultural, and industrial development concentrated in coastal areas contributes to the destruction of cultural resources. Mitigation of these threats requires rapid action on the part of archaeologists and public land managers. This study presents a method for quickly evaluating relative resource vulnerability at national, regional, and local scales, using data that is available for all United States coastlines, as well as many other coastlines around the world. Three regional case studies-the mountainous coast of California's Santa Barbara Channel, the wetlands and sandy shores of Texas, and the protected estuarine shores of Virginia's Chesapeake Bay-are compared to shoreline vulnerability for the United States as a whole. In each of these regions, sites have already been submerged under rising tides, lost to storm erosion, or destroyed by human activities. Variability in coastal geomorphology, rates of relative sea-level rise, and the structure of prehistoric settlement and subsistence systems, however, produce different patterns of vulnerability.

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Prehistoric Archaeology Underwater: A Nascent Subdiscipline Critical to Understanding Early Coastal Occupations and Migration Routes

Cited by 36 publications

References 42 publications

Submerged Paleolandscapes: Site GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1) and the First Evidences from the Pacific Coast of South America

Submerged Paleolandscapes: Site GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1) and the First Evidences from the Pacific Coast of South America

Recent Progress, Trends, and Developments in Island and Coastal Archaeology

Cultural Heritage at Risk in the Twenty-First Century: A Vulnerability Assessment of Coastal Archaeological Sites in the United States

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