Acoustic mapping of submerged Stone Age sites - a HALD approach

Ole Gron; Lars Ole Boldreel; Morgan Smith; Shawn Joy; Rostand Tayong Boumda; Andreas Mader; Niels Bleicher; Bo Madsen; Deborah Cvikel; Bjorn Nilsson; Arne Sjostrom; Ehud Galili; Egon Normark; Changquin Hu; Qunyan Ren; Philippe Blondel; Xing Gao; Petra Strakendal; Antonio Dell'Anno

doi:10.3390/rs13030445

Acoustic mapping of submerged Stone Age sites - a HALD approach

Ole Gron
, Lars Ole Boldreel
, Morgan Smith
, Shawn Joy
, Rostand Tayong Boumda
, Andreas Mader
, Niels Bleicher
, Bo Madsen
, Deborah Cvikel
, Bjorn Nilsson
, Arne Sjostrom
, Ehud Galili
, Egon Normark
, Changquin Hu
, Qunyan Ren
, Philippe Blondel
, Xing Gao
, Petra Strakendal
, Antonio Dell'Anno

University of Copenhagen
University of Tennessee
The Archaeological Research Cooperative Inc.
University of Bedfordshire
Unterwasserarchäologie/Dendrochronologie Zürich, Amt für Stadtebau
East Jutland Museum
University of Haifa
Lund University
Aarhus University
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Länsstyrelsen i Blekinge län
Università Politecnica delle Marche (UNIVPM), Ancona

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Abstract

Acoustic response from lithics knapped by humans has been demonstrated to facilitate effective detection of submerged Stone Age sites exposed on the seafloor or embedded within its sediments. This phenomenon has recently enabled the non-invasive detection of several hitherto unknown submerged Stone Age sites, as well as the registration of acoustic responses from already known localities. Investigation of the acoustic-response characteristics of knapped lithics, which appear not to be replicated in naturally cracked lithic pieces (geofacts), is presently on-going through laboratory experiments and finite element (FE) modelling of high-resolution 3D-scanned pieces. Experimental work is also being undertaken, employing chirp sub-bottom systems (reflection seismic) on known sites in marine areas and inland water bodies. Fieldwork has already yielded positive results in this initial stage of development of an optimised Human-Altered Lithic Detection (HALD) method for mapping submerged Stone Age sites. This paper reviews the maritime archaeological perspectives of this promising approach, which potentially facilitates new and improved practice, summarizes existing data, and reports on the present state of development. Its focus is not reflection seismics as such, but a useful resonance phenomenon induced by the use of high-resolution reflection seismic systems.

Original language	English
Article number	445
Number of pages	27
Journal	Remote Sensing
Volume	13
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030445
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: Thanks to those who assisted with the fieldwork. Peer T. Jørgensen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Copenhagen, assisted the group’s fieldwork in Europe as a technician. Paul Christiansen and Mathias Madsen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management assisted with the fieldwork in Denmark. Amir Yurman and Moshe Bachar from the maritime workshop of the Leon Recanati Institute for Maritime Studies, Haifa, assisted with the fieldwork in Israel. Timothy DeSmet, Binghamton University, gave insight to labwork in the USA. Thanks to Schlumberger for the Petrel university grant issued to the Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, Geology Group, University of Copenhagen, and thanks to the Wellbore Acoustic Lab at Texas A&M University for initial acoustic experiments.

Funding Information:
Funding: The survey at Atlit-Yam, Israel, (IAA permit S-688/2016) was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 1899/12). The National Center for the Preservation of Technology and Training and Florida Division of Historical Resources, supported the work in USA with grant numbers P19AP00136 and 20.h.sm.200.155, respectively.

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Keywords

Acoustic mapping
Cultural heritage management
Lithic artefacts
Underwater archaeology
Underwater survey

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Gron, O., Boldreel, L. O., Smith, M., Joy, S., Tayong Boumda, R., Mader, A., Bleicher, N., Madsen, B., Cvikel, D., Nilsson, B., Sjostrom, A., Galili, E., Normark, E., Hu, C., Ren, Q., Blondel, P., Gao, X., Strakendal, P., & Dell'Anno, A. (2021). Acoustic mapping of submerged Stone Age sites - a HALD approach. Remote Sensing, 13(3), Article 445. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030445

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