8SL 17: Natural Site-Formation Processes of a Multiple-Component Underwater Sitein Florida. Submerged Cultural Resources Special Report

摘要

In the 1960s, commercial treasure salvors of a 1715 shipwreck recoveredprehistoric artifacts and other materials from a 5,000-year-old inundated terrestrial site. This publication discusses fieldwork conducted in 1978 to determine the nature of the site, account for its preservation, and test a site location methodology developed to detect inundated terrestrial sites on the continental shelf. The study focuses on processes of inundation and site preservation, geology and coastal processes, and presents results of archeological, geochemical, palynological, and sedimentary analyses.