Tiles and Coastal Trade

Skaarup, Jørgen

doi:10.1080/0108464x.1984.10589922

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“…Sports divers have been active in the location of Mesolithic SHOS in the Baltic (Skaarup 1980;Fischer 1993Fischer , 1995Pedersen et al 1997), and in the subsequent supervised excavation. Discoveries in Israel (Raban 1983), and off the coast of Florida (Dunbar 1988) were made as a result of continuous dialogue and interaction between professional archaeologists, student diving groups, and amateurs including fishermen.…”

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“…In the 1970s, Raban and others surveyed and partially excavated Bronze Age SHOS off the coast of Israel (Raban 1983). In the Baltic, Skaarup and others surveyed and partially excavated Meso-lithic SHOS in the 1970s and 1980s (Skaarup 1980;Flemming 1983a;Fischer 1993), with an age of the order 6kaBP. In 1981, Efstratiou & Flemming surveyed and conducted test pit excavation on a submerged Neolithic SHOS in northern Greece (Flemming 1983b).…”

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“…By 1969 Flemming had identified 73 sites with submerged materials, and 24 definitely displaced downwards relative to present sea level in the Western Mediterranean, and Frost (1963) described about 20 from the Eastern Mediterranean. In the 1970s sites References: (1) Masters & Flemming (1983a); (2) were discovered in the Baltic (Skaarup 1980), and in Japan (Osaki 1973), and by the early 1980s numerous sites had been confirmed off the coast of California and Florida (Cockrell 1980;Masters 1983;Dunbar et al 1992). By the mid-1980s, sites were being found in the Bahamas, Australia, and India.…”

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Archaeological evidence for vertical movement on the continental shelf during the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age periods

Flemming

1999

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Submarine archaeological sites of human occupation on the continental shelf provide evidence of palaeo-shorelines during the last 50000 years, with possibly longer periods of accessible data. Sites are widely distributed globally, and provide a rich source of peripheral information on landscapes, climate, water supply, sediment transport, and soil types, which are relevant to coastal tectonics and processes, in addition to location, elevation, and date. More than 500 sites have been discovered world-wide where there are the remains of human occupation under the sea. Artefacts embedded in a few metres of sediments can survive multiple marine transgression, given local topography that creates suitable wave and current conditions. The raw data have been analysed to separate glacial eustatic fluctuations of global sea level and local or regional tectonic processes. The number of sites in the Mediterranean permits the detection of regional vertical tectonic displacement with a spatial resolution of a few tens of kilometres in many regions. In other parts of the world the density of sites is not yet sufficient to achieve this, but indicators of vertical movements, or lack of vertical movement, provide valuable point data. Continuing discovery of new sites indicates that the technique will provide data with improved spatial resolution, and, outside the Americas, over a timescale extending to hundreds of millennia, and possibly one million years FLEMMING, N. C. 1998. Archaeological evidence for vertical movement on the continental shelf during the

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