Rising Sea Level and Prehistoric Cultural Ecology in Northern New England

1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean R. Snow
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Cultural Ecology ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Bay Of Fundy ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
Level Shifts ◽  
Northern New England ◽  
Rising Sea Level

AbstractSea level has been rising over the past 4 millennia along the coast of northern New England, but the rate of rise has been faster in the direction of the Bay of Fundy. In any given locality, the rate of rise has been steadily slowing during that time. These and other concurrent changes have complicated the study of shifts in prehistoric cultural ecology. This paper utilizes archaeological data from 2 important localities to unravel the complex interaction of evolving technology, changing sea level, shifts in marine resources, and probable changes in terrestrial flora and fauna over time. Locally specific natural limitations on cultural options are discussed.

A Comment on Snow's “Rising Sea Level and Prehistoric Cultural Ecology in Northern New England”

1974 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter S. Newman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
New England ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Cultural Ecology ◽  
Northern New England ◽  
Rising Sea Level

AbstractSnow's thesis that shellfish were not eaten by archaic peoples of North America until A.D. 1 is questioned.

scholarly journals Coastal archaeologies: settlement on the changing North Sea littoral

Antiquity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (358) ◽  
pp. 1095-1097
Author(s):  
Hans Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
North Sea ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Prehistoric Archaeology ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Many ◽  
Rising Sea Level

Over the past decade or so, the submerged prehistoric archaeology and landscapes in the area that is known to us today as the North Sea have received increasing attention from both archaeologists and earth scientists. For too long, this body of water was perceived as a socio-cultural obstacle between the prehistoric Continent and the British Isles, the rising sea level a threat to coastal settlers, and the North Sea floor itself an inaccessible submerged landscape. Notwithstanding the many pertinent and pervasive problems that the archaeology of the North Sea still needs to overcome, recent research has made clear that these rather uninspiring beliefs are misplaced.

scholarly journals CASE HISTORY OF THE CAPE COD CANAL

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
John E. Allen
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Case History ◽  
Cape Cod ◽  
Narrow Neck ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Origin ◽  
Northern New England

No more interesting or appealing subject than the Cape Cod Canal could be assigned to one who is engaged in the study and development of navigation in New England. This sea-level canal, located 50 miles south of Boston at the narrow neck of land joining Cape Cod to the mainland, principally serves coastwise shipping to and from Boston and Northern New England. While it was only completed in 1940 no one should entertain the thought that it is of recent origin.

Global Climatic Issues in the Coastal Wider Caribbean Region

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Gable ◽  
J.H. Gentile ◽  
D.G. Aubrey
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ice Sheets ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Change Analysis ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
The Past ◽  
Erosion Loss ◽  
Rising Sea Level

There is mounting evidence of global climate change. Analysis of near-surface temperatures over land and oceans during the past 130 years shows marked warming during the first half of this century, with relatively steady temperatures thereafter to the mid-1970s and rapid warming occurring during the 1980s. Of further significance is the fact that the warmest decade in the record is that of the 1980s, with some of the most pronounced warming occurring in the lower latitudes which include the wider Caribbean region. In the context of this study, the important consequences of this warming are the potential impacts associated with rising sea-level and the increased frequency, intensity, and seasonality, of tropical storms due to thermal expansion of the oceans, melting of land-based ice-sheets and glaciers, and local geological parameters. Within the wider Caribbean, rates of relative sea-level rise have been recently estimated at around 2.5 mm/yr. Also, meteorological changes are evident with the occurrence of unusually intense storms such as Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. Rising sea-level coupled with meteorological changes present the potential for increased coastal erosion, loss of wetlands, disappearance of special habitats such as mangroves, and destruction of coral-reef communities. These potential impacts may have a significant influence on future land-use and development practices that could alter the economic growth and development of the region not least through curtailment of tourism.

Holocene Palaeosalinity in a Maya Wetland, Belize, Inferred from the Microfaunal Assemblage

1994 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier A. Alcala-Herrera ◽  
John S. Jacob ◽  
Maria Luisa Machain Castillo ◽  
Raymond W. Neck
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
Open Water ◽  
Shallow Waters ◽  
Freshwater Input ◽  
The Past ◽  
Salinity Changes ◽  
M Sequence ◽  
Freshwater Ostracods ◽  
Rising Sea Level ◽  
Mangrove Peat

AbstractA 5.4-m sequence of peat and marl overlying a basal clay in a northern Belize wetland was studied to assess salinity changes over the past 7000 yr. The distribution of ostracods, gastropods, and foraminifers revealed initially freshwater conditions in a terrestrial wetland, changing to at least mesohaline conditions by about 5600 yr B.P. The mesohaline conditions corresponded to the formation of an open-water lagoon (and precipitation of a lacustrine marl) that was contemporaneous with rapidly rising sea level in the area. A mangrove peat filled the lagoon by 4800 yr B.P. probably as a result of increasingly shallow waters as sea level rise slowed and marl precipitation continued. A new lagoon began to form sometime after 3400 yr B.P. Freshwater ostracods and gastropods found in the marl of this lagoon suggest that it formed under near-limnetic conditions. Freshwater input likely resulted from massive deforestation by the Maya that began by 4400 yr B.P. Subsidence of the mangrove peat likely permitted the formation of a lagoon. A peat has filled the lagoon since at least 500 yr B.P.

Google Hangout with Annie Baker, Playwright 1/25/16, 2:33 PM

2016 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 57-64
Author(s):  
Genevieve Yue
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Film Festival ◽  
The Past

Genevieve Yue interviews playwright Annie Baker, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Flick focuses on the young employees of a single-screen New England movie house. Baker is one of the most critically lauded playwrights to emerge on the New York theater scene in the past ten years, in part due to her uncompromising commitment to experimentation and disruption. Baker intrinsically understands that arriving at something meaningful means taking a new way. Accordingly, Baker did not want to conduct a traditional interview for Film Quarterly. After running into each other at a New York Film Festival screening of Chantal Akerman's No Home Movie (2015)—both overwhelmed by the film—Yue and Baker agreed to begin their conversation by choosing a film neither of them had seen before and watching it together. The selection process itself led to a long discussion, which led to another, and then finally, to the Gmail hangout that forms the basis of the interview.

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