1st Edition

Submerged Prehistory in the Americas Methods, Approaches and Results

Edited By John M. O’Shea Copyright 2023
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

This book presents an overview of the exciting new developments in underwater research in North America, ranging from new approaches for discovering submerged sites to an assessment of how these findings challenge the understanding of the North American past. Archaeological sites preserved on the world’s continental shelves are relevant to a wide range of major research questions and their... Read more

Introduction—Submerged prehistory in the Americas: Methods, approaches and results

John M. O’Shea

1. Submerged prehistory and anthropological archaeology: Do underwater studies contribute to theory?

Ashley Lemke

2. "The early days" – underwater prehistoric archaeology in the USA and Canada

Ervan G. Garrison and Jessica W. Cook Hale

3. Crossing the waterline: Integrating terrestrial and submerged site investigations in the Aucilla River, Florida

Jessi J. Halligan

4. Combining underwater and terrestrial research approaches in the Great Basin Desert, Walker Lake, Nevada

Neil N. Puckett

5. The magnificent seven: Marine submerged precontact sites found by systematic geoarchaeology in the Americas

Michael K. Faught and Morgan F. Smith

6. Micro-regional approaches for submerged site archaeology

John M. O’Shea

7. The archaeology of submerged prehistoric sites on the North Pacific Coast of North America

Norman Alexander Easton, Charles Moore and Andrew R. Mason

8. Coastally-adapted: A developing model for coastal Paleoindian sites on the North American eastern continental shelf

Shawn Joy

9. Global experience in locating submerged prehistoric sites and their relevance to research on the American continental shelves

Nicholas C. Flemming

Biography

John O'Shea is Curator of Great Lakes Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology at the University of Michigan, USA. He received his PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from Cambridge University, UK. In addition to underwater research, he has directed major field projects in Hungary, Romania, and North America.