The essays below will help you to understand the goals and objectives of the mission and provide additional context and information about the places being explored and the science, tools, and technologies being used.
By Amanda Evans
This project is starting from a handful of puzzle pieces that tell us people were living along the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and coastal Texas and Louisiana as early as 13,000 years ago. Our objective is to add more information to this overwhelming puzzle.
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For this project, we started with two locations that were previously identified through archaeological mapping and exploration projects. Both were from the same water depth (about 50 feet), and both dated to about the same time period, 8,500 BP or about 10,500 years ago.
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How do you look for something that doesn’t want to be found? Since the river valleys and channels aren’t visible to the naked eye, we use different remote-sensing tools to image them.
Read moreBy Megan Metcalfe
When looking for submerged landscapes below the seafloor, the main geophysical tool we use is a sub-bottom profiler. It can also show where there is a major change in angle and character of deposits, such as the cut of an ancient river channel, which has been filled by mud and sands.
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