Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes

Research into the anthropogenic and taphonomic processes that affect the formation of maritime archaeological resources has grown significantly over the last decade in both theory and the analysis of specific sites and associated material culture. The add

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Alicia Caporaso Editor

Formation Processes of Maritime Archaeological Landscapes

When the Land Meets the Sea An ACUA and SHA Series

Series editors Annalies Corbin, PAST Foundation, Columbus, OH, USA J.W. Joseph, New South Associates, Inc., Stone Mountain, GA, USA

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/8370

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Editor Alicia Caporaso Covington, LA USA

ISSN 1869-6783 When the Land Meets the Sea ISBN 978-3-319-48786-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-48787-8

ISSN 1869-6791

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ISBN 978-3-319-48787-8

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Acknowledgments

The genesis of this book began with the organization of a symposium on the formation of maritime sites and landscapes at the 2013 conference for the Society for American Archaeology at the University of Leicester, UK. I would like to thank Joyce Steinmetz for her assistance in organizing the session and Paul Johnston for synthesizing the main themes of the session as discussant. Each author who has contributed his/her/their chapter to this volume worked tirelessly to help me shepherd this book through the process of creation, editing, and production. I am very grateful to Annalies Corbin and the SHA publication committee as well as Teresa Krauss at Springer for supporting this project. Lastly, I must thank Ben Ford, my SHA Co-Publications Associate Editor, for allowing me to use his experience as the editor of the second volume in this series, to make the process so much easier than it may have been, and for his extensive, thoughtful comments on each chapter and the ov