Research
The following links provide details of archaeological projects under water developed
at Florida State University.
Indexes and Resources
A rich prehistoric
and maritime past has resulted in a wide range of
submerged cultural resources studied by FSU Department of Anthropology
faculty and students. Maritime and maritime archaeological projects
in the
Mediterranean, Europe, the Black Sea and the Red Sea and western Indian
Ocean are the subjects of a number of publications and theses.
More than 2,000 shipwreck sites are recorded within Florida's dangerous
waters and documentation of prehistoric sites now submerged on the
continental shelf has contributed to a better understanding of the
peopling
of the New World at the end of the last ice age. In addition, the
adjacent
Gulf of Mexico and circum-Caribbean area offer a wide range of shipwreck
sites with potential to provide information on the trans-Atlantic
slave
trade, the expansion of European colonial powers into the New World
in the
16th and 17th centuries, and the development of a world-wide economy
and
global sea power in the 18th and 19th centuries, among other issues.
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