Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes (When the Land Meets the Sea)

Annotation Research into the anthropogenic and taphonomic processes that affect the formation of maritime archaeological resources has grown significantly over the last decade in both theory and the analysis of specific sites and associated material culture. The addition of interdisciplinary inquiry, investigative techniques, and analytical modeling, from fields such as engineering, oceanography, and marine biology have increased our ability to trace the unique pathways through which archaeological sites progress from initial deposition to the present, yet can also link individual sites into an integrated socio-environmental maritime landscape. This edited volume presents a global perspective of current research in maritime archaeological landscape formation processes. In addition to classically considered submerged material culture and geography, or those that can be accessed by traditional underwater methodology, case studies include less-often considered sites and landscapes. These landscapes, for example, require archaeologists to use geophysical marine survey equipment to characterize extensive areas of the seafloor or go above the surface to access maritime archaeological resources that have received less scholarly attention." Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-6 A Dynamic Processual Maritime Archaeological Landscape Formation Model....Pages 7-29 Mapping the Coastal Frontier: Shipwrecks and the Cultural Landscape of the Early Republic Littoral....Pages 31-52 Collaboration, Collision, and (Re)Conciliation: Indigenous Participation in Australia’s Maritime Industry—A Case Study from Point Pearce/Burgiyana, South Australia....Pages 53-77 The Formation of a West African Maritime Seascape: Atlantic Trade, Shipwrecks, and Formation Processes on the Coast of Ghana....Pages 79-111 Environment and Agency in the Formation of the Eastern Ship Graveyard in the Central Basin at Thonis-Heracleion, Egypt....Pages 113-140 Tsunami and Salvage: The Archaeological Landscape of the Beeswax Wreck, Oregon, USA....Pages 141-161 Coastal Erosion and Archaeological Site Formation Processes on Santa Rosa Island, California....Pages 163-188 Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Sites in Guadeloupe (French West Indies): A First Approach....Pages 189-209 Conclusions/Discussion....Pages 211-217 Back Matter....Pages 219-220 "Research into the anthropogenic and taphonomic processes that affect the formation of maritime archaeological resources has grown significantly over the last decade in both theory and the analysis of specific sites and associated material culture. The addition of interdisciplinary inquiry, investigative techniques, and analytical modeling, from fields such as engineering, oceanography, and marine biology have increased our ability to trace the unique pathways through which archaeological sites progress from initial deposition to the present, yet can also link individual sites into an integrated socio-environmental maritime landscape. This edited volume presents a global perspective of current research in maritime archaeological landscape formation processes"--Publisher's description