Prehistoric Site Discovery on the Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, United States of America

Pearson, Charles E.; Weinstein, Richard A.; Gagliano, Sherwood M.; Kelley, David B.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-9635-9_4

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“…Benjamin et al, 2011). However, most sites and finds have emerged from the seabed or obscured under mobile sediments, and few sites have been discovered from buried contexts (Pearson et al, 2014). Due to the global nature of eustatic processes, there is potential for encountering submerged prehistoric material worldwide (Bailey and Flemming, 2008;Evans et al, 2014) and Palaeolithic material has been recovered from other underwater contexts (e.g.…”

Section: Submerged Prehistory In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

Tizzard¹,

Bicket²,

Benjamín

et al. 2014

J Quaternary Science

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The potential for Middle Palaeolithic sites to survive beneath the sea in northern latitudes has been established by intensive investigation within Area 240, a marine aggregate licence area situated in the North Sea, 11 km off the coast of Norfolk, England. The fortuitous discovery of bifacial handaxes, and Levallois flakes and cores, led to a major programme of fieldwork and analysis between 2008 and 2013. The artefacts were primarily recovered from Marine Isotope Stage 8/7 floodplain sediments deposited between 250 and 200 ka. It is considered that the hand axes and Levallois products are contemporaneous in geological terms with taphonomically complex sedimentary contexts, as observed in several north‐west European sites. The Early Middle Palaeolithic (EMP) lithics have survived multiple phases of glaciation and marine transgression. The investigations confirm that the artefacts are not a ‘chance’ find, but indicate clear relationships to submerged and buried landscapes that, although complex, can be examined in detail using a variety of existing fieldwork and analytical methods. The palaeogeographical context of the finds also offers expanded interpretations of the distribution of EMP hominins in the southern North Sea, not predictable from onshore archaeological records.

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Section: Submerged Prehistory In Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

Tizzard¹,

Bicket²,

Benjamín

et al. 2014

J Quaternary Science

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“…Thousands of square kilometers of formerly subaerial coastal plain lie submerged today; much of it within the Gulf of Mexico along the western continental shelf of Florida and the South Atlantic Bight along the Georgia coastline [114][115][116]. Multiple examples exist of attempts to develop systematic approaches to detect high probability areas for submerged prehistoric sites since the 1970s, when the National Park Service funded the first of multiple studies aimed at paleolandscape reconstruction and identification of high probability zones for prehistoric archaeological sites [117][118][119].…”

Section: The Southeastern Us Outer Continental Shelfmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the western Gulf of Mexico, Coastal Environments, Incorporated, developed a comprehensive landscape model that synthesized geological, geomorphological, and archaeological data, assessed areas for preservation potentials, and then developed a sedimentologically based model for detecting archaeological sediments using coring [117,118]. From these baseline studies, they then launched geophysical surveys along Sabine Pass, Texas, followed by coring that yielded archaeological materials that are deeply buried [119,122]. Later in the 1980s, the Minerals Management Service (MMS), Department of the Interior of the United States (now Bureau of Ocean Energy Management [BOEM]) funded work at McFaddin Beach on the north Texas coastline, where potential sources for archaeological materials remain highly enigmatic [123,124].…”

Section: The Southeastern Us Outer Continental Shelfmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Work along the South Atlantic Bight was guided by physiographic parameters (primarily paleochannels and rocky outcrops). Work at Sabine Pass was predicated on onshore archaeological depositional trends and attendant landforms [117][118][119]. Testing at Douglass Beach, Florida, involved no predictive modelling and has yet to be articulated with the paleolandscape.…”

Section: The Southeastern Us Outer Continental Shelfmentioning

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Mapping Stone Age Sites by Topographical Modelling: Problems and Possibilities

Grøn

Hansson

Hale

et al. 2022

Handbook of Cultural Heritage Analysis

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Topographical/bathymetric archaeological modelling of potential Stone Age settlement zones has been criticized for operating in a world of its own and producing results with a poor relation to the real world. As landscape archaeologists who use modelling and an awareness of the importance of being able to detect Stone Age sites effectively in relation to GIS-based management and protection as well as research, we find it important to extend the debate about modelling. This includes its more advanced forms such as agent-based modelling (ABM) to a point where it interfaces in a convincing way with the available archaeological, ethnographic/social anthropological, landscape ecological, as well as geomorphological data and knowledge.To obtain this goal, it has been necessary not to base this review on the generally accepted presumptions inherent in archaeological topographical modelling of potential Stone Age settlement zones, but to approach this theme "from the outside" in a wide interdisciplinary perspective with a special focus on the highly relevant data from ethnography/social anthropology, landscape ecology, as well as geomorphology.This chapter aims to sum up the difficulties in topographical settlement zone modelling as well as its possibilities for making progress. It offers a review of the historical and theoretical background for modelling of potential Stone Age settlement zones in relation to the debate about environmental determinism in anthropology as well as the geomorphological and landscape ecological 1596 O. Grøn et al. backgrounds for topographical settlement zone modelling. Examples of modelling methods ranging from the rather basic to the quite complex, such as agentbased modelling (ABM), are used to give an idea of how different types of topographical modelling work. Tests/evaluations of their results are used to indicate how well they work. To elucidate the types of complexities, a number of examples are presented of behavior from recent small-scale cultures who demonstrate dynamic cultural variation.

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“…There are advantages to marine industry too and so the mutually beneficial strategies to facilitate collaboration should not be underestimated. International examples have demonstrated how industry and research communities have successfully collaborated to study palaeolandscapes globally, including the North Sea, Baltic, and Gulf of Mexico (Fitch and Gaffney 2009;Russell and Tizzard 2011;Holmlund et al 2017;Pearson et al 2014;Moree and Sier 2015;Peeters and Amkreutz 2020). It is also ethically important that industry and archaeological communities recognise the cultural significance of sea country and its value to Traditional Owners and local communities (McNiven 2004).…”

Section: Improving Submerged Landscape Archaeology Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia

Wiseman

O’Leary

Hacker

et al. 2021

Quaternary International

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Prehistoric Site Discovery on the Outer Continental Shelf, Gulf of Mexico, United States of America

Cited by 15 publications

References 11 publications

A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

A Middle Palaeolithic site in the southern North Sea: investigating the archaeology and palaeogeography of Area 240

Mapping Stone Age Sites by Topographical Modelling: Problems and Possibilities

A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia

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