This volume, the result of an International Conference on Wet Site
Archaeology funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities,
explores the rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique
assemblages from water-saturated deposits. Characteristics common
to all archaeological wet sites are identified from Newfoundland to
Chile, Polynesia to Florida, and from the Late Pleistocene to the
Twentieth Century. Topics include innovative excavation and
preservation methods; the need for adequate funding to preserve and
analyze the abundant biological and cultural remains recovered only
at archaeological wet sites; expanded knowledge of past
environments, subsistence, technologies, artistic expressions,
skeletal structure, and pathologies; the urgency to inform
developers and governmental bodies about the invisible heritage
entombed in wetlands that is often destroyed before it can be
investigated; a formula for establishing priorities for excavating
wet sites; and how to determine when enough of a wet site has been
sampled.Many famous sites and discoveries are described in this
volume, including Herculaneum, Hoko River, Hontoon Island, Key
Marco, Monte Verde, Ozette, Somerset Levels, Windover, bog bodies
of Northern Europe, and lake dwellers of Switzerland. Professional
and amateur archaeologists, as well as anyone interested in
archaeology or the significance of wet site archaeology will find
this book fascinating.
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