Wet Site Archaeology / Barbara A. Purdy.

chapter 1 A Wetland Perspective / John M. Coles -- chapter 2 Problems and Responsibilities in The Excavation of Wet Sites / Richard D. Daugherty -- chapter 3 Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Lake Neuchâtel, Switzerland: From The Paleolithic to The Middle Ages / Michel Egloff -- chapter 4 The Peat Hag / John M. Coles -- chapter 5 The Location and Assessment of Underwater Archaeological Sites / Reynold J. Ruppé -- chapter 6 New Applications of Remote Sensing: Geophysical Prospection for Underwater Archaeological Sites in Switzerland / E. Gary Stickel Ervan G. Garrison -- chapter 7 The Somerset Levels: Multidisciplinary Investigations and a Wealth of Results / Bryony Coles -- chapter 8 Wet Sites Archaeology at Red Ray, Larrador / James A. Tuck -- chapter 9 A Waterlogged Site on Huahine Island, French Polynesia / Yosihiko H. Sinoto -- chapter 10 The Significance of the 3000 B.P. Hoko River Waterlogged Fishing Camp in Our Overall Understanding of Southern Northwest Coast Cultural Evolution / Dale R. Croes -- chapter 11 Research Design and Wet Site Archaeology in The Netherlands: An Example / Sander E. van der Leeuw R.W. Brandt -- chapter 12 Early Rainforest Archaeology in Southwestern South America: Research Context, Design, and Data at Monte Verde / Tom D. Dillehay -- chapter 13 The Skeletons of Herculaneum, Italy / Sara Bisel -- chapter 14 An Assembly of Death: Bog Bodies of Northern and Western Europe. / John M. Coles -- chapter 15 Treatment of Waterlogged Wood / David W. Grattan -- chapter 16 Marco's Buried Treasure: Wetlands Archaeology and Adventure in Nineteenth Century Florida / Marion S. Gilliland -- chapter 17 Multidisciplinary Investigations at The Windover Site / Glen H. Doran David N. Dickel -- chapter 18 Settlement, Subsistence, and Environment: Aspects of Cultural Development Within The Wetlands of East-Central Florida / Brenda Sigler-Eisenberg -- chapter 19 Environments of Florida in The Late Wisconsin and Holocene* / William A. Watts Barbara C.S. Hansen -- chapter 20 Archaeological Wet Sites: Untapped Archives of Prehistoric Documents / Barbara A. Purdy.

"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."--Provided by publisher.