The Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes

ISBN-13: 9781441982094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 352 str.

Benjamin L. Ford

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Maritime cultural landscapes are collections of submerged archaeological sites, or combinations of terrestrial and submerged sites that reflect the relationship between humans and the water. These landscapes can range in size from a single beach to an entire coastline and can include areas of terrestrial sites now inundated as well as underwater sites that are now desiccated.

However, what binds all of these sites together is the premise that each aspect of the landscape -cultural, political, environmental, technological, and physical - is interrelated and can not be understood without reference to the others. In this maritime cultural landscape approach, individual sites are treated as features within the larger landscape and the interpretation of single sites add to a larger analysis of a region or culture. This approach provides physical and theoretical links between terrestrial and underwater archaeology as well as prehistoric and historic archaeology; consequently, providing a framework for integrating such diverse topics as trade, resource procurement, habitation, industrial production, and warfare into a holistic study of the past.

Landscape studies foster broader perspectives and approaches, extending the study of maritime cultures beyond the shoreline. Despite this potential, the archaeological study of maritime landscapes is a relatively untried approach with many questions regarding the methods and perspectives needed to effectively analyze these landscapes.

Thechapters in this volume, which include contributions from the United States, the United Kingdom, Norway, and Australia, address many of the theoretical and methodological questions surrounding maritime cultural landscapes. The authors comprise established scholars as well as archaeologists at the beginning of their careers, providing a healthy balance of experience and innovation. The chapters also demonstrate parity between method and theory, where the varying interpretations of culture and space are given equal weight with the challenges of investigating both wet and dry sites across large areas.

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Preface: Putting the Wheels on Maritime Cultural Landscape Studies

David J. Stewart

 

Introduction

Ben Ford

 

Chapter 1

Searching for Santarosae: Surveying Submerged Landscapes for Evidence of Paleocoastal Habitation off California’s Northern Channel Islands

Jack Watts, Brian Fulfrost, and Jon Erlandson

 

Chapter 2

Testing the Paleo-Maritime Hypothesis for Glacial Lake Iroquois

Implications for Changing Views of Past Culture and Technology

Margaret Schulz, Susan Winchell-Sweeney, and Laurie Rush

 

Chapter 3

Lake Ontario Paleoshorelines and Submerged Prehistoric Site Potential in the Great Lakes

Jessi Halligan

 

Chapter 4

The Shoreline as a Bridge, Not a Boundary: Cognitive Maritime Landscapes of Lake Ontario

Ben Ford

 

Chapter 5

Rock, Paper, Shipwreck!

The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Thunder Bay

            Wayne R. Lusardi

 

Chapter 6

Ship to Shore: Inuit, Early Europeans, and Maritime Landscapes in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence

William W. Fitzhugh, Anja Herzog, Sophia Perdikaris, and Brenna McLeod

 

Chapter 7

Temporal Changes in a Pre-Contact and Contact Period Cultural Landscape along the Southern Rhode Island Coast

Christopher Jazwa

 

Chapter 8

A Maritime Landscape of Old Navy Cove and Deadman’s Island

Krista Dana Jordan-Greene

 

Chapter 9

Potential Contributions of a Maritime Cultural Landscape Approach to Submerged Prehistoric Resources, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

Amanda M. Evans and Matthew E. Keith

 

Chapter 10

Modeling Maritime Culture; Galveston, Texas in the Historic Period

Matthew E. Keith and Amanda M. Evans

 

Chapter 11

The Hidden World of the Maritime Maya: Lost Landscapes along the North Coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico

Jeffrey B. Glover, Dominique Rissolo, and Jennifer P. Mathews

 

Chapter 12

Material Culture and Maritime Identity: Identifying Maritime Subcultures through Artifacts

Heather E. Hatch

 

Chapter 13

The “Richest River in the World”: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of the Mouth of the Río Chagres, Republica de Panamá 

James P. Delgado, Frederick H. Hanselmann, and Dominique Rissolo

 

Chapter 14

US Shipbuilding Activities at American River, South Australia: Finding Significance of ‘Place’ in the Maritime Cultural Landscape

Claire P. Dappert

 

Chapter 15

“What Do You Want to Catch?”: Exploring the Maritime Cultural Landscapes of the Queenscliff Fishing Community

Brad Duncan

 

Chapter 16

The Binary Relationship of Sea and Land

Christer Westerdahl

 

Chapter 17

Places of Special Meaning: Westerdahl’s Comet, ‘Agency’, and the Concept of the ‘Maritime Cultural Landscape’

Joe Flatman

 

Conclusion: The Maritime Cultural Landscape Revisited

Christer Westerdahl

 

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Dr. Ben Ford is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include historical and maritime archaeology, and historic preservation, as well as the uses and perceptions of space and environment during the past.