[HTML][HTML] Sea level rise drowned a vast habitable area of north-western Australia driving long-term cultural change

K Norman, CJA Bradshaw, F Saltré, C Clarkson… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
For most of the period of human occupation of Sahul (the combined Pleistocene landmass of
Australia and New Guinea), lower sea levels exposed an extensive area of the northwest of …

Framing Australian Pleistocene coastal occupation and archaeology

K Ditchfield, S Ulm, T Manne, H Farr, D O'Grady… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
There are few archaeological sites that contain records for Pleistocene coastal occupation in
Australia, as is the case globally. Two major viewpoints seek to explain why so few sites …

[HTML][HTML] Aboriginal artefacts on the continental shelf reveal ancient drowned cultural landscapes in northwest Australia

J Benjamin, M O'Leary, J McDonald, C Wiseman… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
This article reports Australia's first confirmed ancient underwater archaeological sites from
the continental shelf, located off the Murujuga coastline in north-western Australia. Details …

A multi-scalar approach to marine survey and underwater archaeological site prospection in Murujuga, Western Australia

C Wiseman, M O'Leary, J Hacker, F Stankiewicz… - Quaternary …, 2021 - Elsevier
During the past 20,000 years approximately one-quarter of the continental landmass of
Australia was inundated by postglacial sea-level rise, submerging archaeological evidence …

New evidence of a Roman road in the Venice Lagoon (Italy) based on high resolution seafloor reconstruction

F Madricardo, M Bassani, G D'Acunto… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
This study provides new evidence of the presence of an ancient Roman road in
correspondence to a paleobeach ridge now submerged in the Venice Lagoon (Italy). New …

Underwater shell middens: excavation and remote sensing of a submerged Mesolithic site at Hjarnø, Denmark

PM Astrup, C Skriver, J Benjamin… - The Journal of Island …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Shell middens, or shell-matrix deposits, occur in large numbers across the coastlines of the
world from the mid-Holocene (ca. 6000–5000 cal BC) onwards, often forming substantial …

A strategy for assessing continuity in terrestrial and maritime landscapes from Murujuga (Dampier Archipelago), North West Shelf, Australia

P Veth, J McDonald, I Ward, M O'Leary… - The Journal of Island …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Over the last 20,000 years, one third of the continental land mass of Australia, or
2.12 million km2, has been drowned by postglacial sea-level rise. Much of this drowned …

[HTML][HTML] The lowland Maya settlement landscape: Environmental LiDAR and ecology

W Schroder, T Murtha, C Golden, AA Hernández… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the archaeological evaluation of 458 tiles of LiDAR collected by
environmental scientists over southern Mexico using the G-LiHT system of NASA's Goddard …

RETRACTED: Applying geoarchaeological principles to marine archaeology: A reappraisal of the “first marine” and “in situ” lithic scatters in the Dampier Archipelago …

I Ward, P Larcombe, PJ Ross, C Fandry - Geoarchaeology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The absence of known prehistoric underwater cultural heritage (UCH) sites on the Australian
inner shelf stands in stark contrast to the thousands of sites revealed elsewhere in the world …

Exploring Sea Country through high-resolution 3D seismic imaging of Australia's NW shelf: Resolving early coastal landscapes and preservation of underwater …

MJ O'Leary, V Paumard, I Ward - Quaternary science reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Almost 2 million square km of Australia's continental shelf was flooded following the
termination of the last glacial maximum, and with it the cultural heritage of the first arrival and …