Archaeology of Maritime Landscapes

Dr. Ben Ford is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include historical and maritime archaeology, and historic preservation, as well as the uses and perceptions of space and environment during the past.

• Preface: Putting the Wheels on Maritime Cultural Landscape Studies, David J. Stewart.-  Introduction, Ben Ford.- Chapter I: Searching for Santarosae: Surveying Submerged Landscapes for Evidence of Paleocoastal Habitation off California’s Northern Channel Islands, Jack Watts, Brian Fulfrost, and Jon Erlandson.- Chapter 2: Testing the Paleo-Maritime Hypothesis for Glacial Lake Iroquois.- Implications for Changing Views of Past Culture and Technology, Margaret Schulz, Susan Winchell-Sweeney, and Laurie Rush.- Chapter 3: Lake Ontario Paleoshorelines and Submerged Prehistoric Site Potential in the Great Lakes, Jessi Halligan.- Chapter 4: The Shoreline as a Bridge, Not a Boundary: Cognitive Maritime Landscapes of Lake Ontario, Ben Ford.- Chapter 5: Rock, Paper, Shipwreck: The Maritime Cultural Landscape of Thunder Bay, Wayne R. Lusardi.-  Chapter 6: Ship to Shore: Inuit, Early Europeans, and Maritime Landscapes in the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence, William W. Fitzhugh, Anja Herzog, Sophia Perdikaris, and Brenna McLeod.-  Chapter 7: Temporal Changes in a Pre-Contact and Contact Period Cultural Landscape along the Southern Rhode Island Coast, Christopher Jazwa.-  Chapter 8: A Maritime Landscape of Old Navy Cove and Deadman’s Island, Krista Dana Jordan-Greene.-  Chapter 9: Potential Contributions of a Maritime Cultural Landscape Approach to Submerged Prehistoric Resources, Northwestern Gulf of Mexico, Amanda M. Evans and Matthew E. Keith .-  Chapter 10: Modeling Maritime Culture; Galveston, Texas in the Historic Period, Matthew E. Keith and Amanda M. Evans.-  Chapter 11: The Hidden World of the Maritime Maya: Lost Landscapes along the North Coast of Quintana Roo, Mexico; Jeffrey B. Glover, Dominique Rissolo, and Jennifer P. Mathews.-  Chapter 12: Material Culture and Maritime Identity: Identifying Maritime Subcultures through Artifacts, Heather E. Hatch.-  Chapter 13: The “Richest River in the World”: The MaritimeCultural Landscape of the Mouth of the Río Chagres, Republica de Panamá, James P. Delgado, Frederick H. Hanselmann, and Dominique Rissolo.-  .- Chapter 14: US Shipbuilding Activities at American River, South Australia: Finding Significance of ‘Place’ in the Maritime Cultural Landscape, Claire P. Dappert.-  Chapter 15: “What Do You Want to Catch?”: Exploring the Maritime Cultural Landscapes of the Queenscliff Fishing Community, Brad Duncan.-  Chapter 16: The Binary Relationship of Sea and Land, Christer Westerdahl.-  Chapter 17: Places of Special Meaning: Westerdahl’s Comet, ‘Agency’, and the Concept of the ‘Maritime Cultural Landscape’, Joe Flatman.-  Conclusion: The Maritime Cultural Landscape Revisited, Christer Westerdahl.