A Needle in a Haystack: Landscape Survey and Archaeological Detection Experiments in Apalachee Bay

IF 2.1 3区 地球科学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY
Simon Fitch, Jessica Cook Hale
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This paper presents the results of a pilot landscape‐scale seismic survey undertaken in Apalachee Bay, Florida, across a submerged landscape that contains dozens of Pre‐Contact sites. In addition to the goals of improving the geophysical and remote sensing ground model for this submerged landscape, the survey also sought to undertake the first independent scientific test of the contentious ‘HALD’ methodology, an acoustic resonance method that it is claimed to identify knapped lithic artefacts at and/or below the seabed through the identification of distinct ‘haystack’ responses. The results of this work indicate that the HALD method, as currently described, produces results that could not be scientifically replicated in this survey. We conclude that any HALD ‘haystack’ signal should therefore not be considered as an example of detection of human‐modified lithic material but rather as a geophysical anomaly that requires additional constraints before it can be used to reliably identify human‐modified lithic materials. Thus, although the authors note that laboratory studies have successfully produced an acoustic signal in human‐modified lithics, the field‐based methods remain yet to be reliably determined. In addition to these results, the landscape mapping survey also recorded valuable information on buried and previously unrecorded landscape features that have archaeological significance and that may guide future site prospection. We therefore conclude that despite the results of the HALD test, the well‐preserved submerged landscape of Apalachee Bay region provides a highly useful testing ground for methods that can be deployed elsewhere globally.
大海捞针:阿帕拉契湾的景观调查和考古探测实验
本文介绍了在佛罗里达州阿帕拉切湾进行的景观尺度地震勘测试点的结果,该勘测横跨包含数十个前人类接触遗址的水下景观。除了改进该水下景观的地球物理和遥感地面模型之外,该勘测还试图对有争议的 "HALD "方法进行首次独立的科学测试,该方法是一种声共振方法,据称可以通过识别独特的 "干草堆 "反应来识别海底和/或海底以下的石器。这项工作的结果表明,目前所描述的 HALD 方法所产生的结果无法在本次调查中科学地复制。我们的结论是,任何 HALD "干草堆 "信号都不应被视为人类改造过的石质材料的探测结果,而应被视为一种地球物理异常现象,在用于可靠地识别人类改造过的石质材料之前需要更多的限制因素。因此,尽管作者指出实验室研究已经成功地在人类改造的石器中产生了声学信号,但实地方法仍有待可靠确定。除了这些结果之外,地貌测绘调查还记录了关于埋藏的和以前未记录的地貌特征的宝贵信息,这些信息具有考古学意义,可以指导未来的遗址勘探。因此,我们得出结论,尽管 HALD 测试的结果不尽如人意,但阿帕拉契湾地区保存完好的水下景观为可在全球其他地方使用的方法提供了一个非常有用的试验场。
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Archaeological Prospection
Archaeological Prospection 地学-地球科学综合
CiteScore
3.90
自引率
11.10%
发文量
31
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: The scope of the Journal will be international, covering urban, rural and marine environments and the full range of underlying geology. The Journal will contain articles relating to the use of a wide range of propecting techniques, including remote sensing (airborne and satellite), geophysical (e.g. resistivity, magnetometry) and geochemical (e.g. organic markers, soil phosphate). Reports and field evaluations of new techniques will be welcomed. Contributions will be encouraged on the application of relevant software, including G.I.S. analysis, to the data derived from prospection techniques and cartographic analysis of early maps. Reports on integrated site evaluations and follow-up site investigations will be particularly encouraged. The Journal will welcome contributions, in the form of short (field) reports, on the application of prospection techniques in support of comprehensive land-use studies. The Journal will, as appropriate, contain book reviews, conference and meeting reviews, and software evaluation. All papers will be subjected to peer review.
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