Day1-1230-New opportunities for understanding the ancient coastline

Friday 12:30pm, Room 1
Georgia Marina Andreou

http://2017.stateofthemap.org/2017/new-opportunities-for-understanding-the-ancient-coastline/

Transcript

1. New opportunities
   for understanding the
   ancient coastline
   Georgia Marina Andreou
   Postdoctoral Research Associate
   Classical Archaeology
   Department of Classics
   Cornell University
   gma58@cornell.edu
   https://cornell.academia.edu/Georgia
   MarinaAndreou
   andreougm
   

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2. The coastline as a historically dynamic environment
   Aerial view of the port of Kobe (wikipedia.org)
   

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3. The coastline as a historically dynamic environment
   Aerial view of the ancient harbour of Amathus, Cyprus (Honor Frost Foundation)
   

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4. Coastal Erosion is affecting the Mediterranean, the Black, the
   Red and the North sea, Atlantic Europe, the Caribbean, the
   Persian Gulf, the Pacific, and North America.
   Examples of dramatic coastal erosion from the UK (BBC news)
   

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5. Coastal Erosion is affecting the
   Mediterranean, the Black, the Red and
   the North sea, Atlantic Europe, the
   Caribbean, the Persian Gulf, the Pacific,
   and North America.
   Examples of dramatic coastal erosion from the
   UK (BBC news)
   

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6. Top Left: Late Bronze Age chamber
   tomb (c. 1300 BCE)
   Top Right: Late Bronze Age domestic
   installation (c. 1300-1200 BCE)
   Bottom: Wall with stratified Late
   Bronze Age and Early Iron Age pottery
   (c. 1300-750 BCE)
   

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7. “The erosion of
   human history”
   (Erlandson 2008)
   Top Left: The wreck of the
   1907 Sheraton steam trawler,
   at Hunstanton, Norfolk Credit:
   CITiZAN
   Bottom Left: Rapa Nui (Easter
   Island)
   Right: Castle Sinclair Girnigoe,
   Caithness, Scotland
   

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8. Mediterranean Sea
   • Defined by its coastline
   • Long history of maritime interaction
   • Case studies for connectivity and trade
   KEY IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN
   HISTORY
   

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9. Top Left: Human occupation on the
   coast (Croatia)
   Top Right: Map produced by the
   EUROSION project
   Bottom Right: Coastal industrial
   centre (Cyprus)
   

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10. Explore Beaches, University of California, Santa Barbara: explorebeaches.msi.ucsb.edu
    

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11. Solway, SCHARP Project: scharp.co.uk Scotland’s Coastal Heritage at Risk Project
    

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13. Andreou and
    Sewell 2015
    Andreou et al.
    2016
    Andreou et al.
    2017
    

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14. The Cyprus Ancient Shoreline Project
    G.M. Andreou & D.A. Sewell
    

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15. Geographical data kindly provided and used with the permission of the Department of Lands and Surveys, Republic of Cyprus
    

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16. Photographs kindly provided and used with the permission of the Department of Lands and Surveys, Republic of Cyprus
    2008 1993 1963
    

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17. Diachronic coastline analysis using Digital Shoreline Analysis System (DSAS)
    

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18. 3D Models produced on Agisoft PhotoScan
    

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19. How can we record rapidly exposed and
    disappearing archaeological features in a
    sustainable manner?
    Tochni Lakkia – Late Bronze Age site – South Central Cyprus
    

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20. Problems
    • Limited Financial Resources
    • Limited Human Resources
    • Fast and dramatic change of the coastline
    WHERE DO WE
    BEGIN?
    

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21. Crowd
    - 10 Men
    - They go fishing regularly using boat
    - 3 of them know how to use computer
    - 2 of them have been online
    - None of them is familiar with online maps and
    mapping
    - 5 of them own GPS which was set up for them
    - All of them mentioned that they know of coastal
    and underwater archaeological sites
    - All of them mention that they have seen anchors
    - 9 of them are familiar with local legends regarding
    maritime activities
    

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22. THLR
    DUV
    FS FS
    ANKR
    POT
    

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23. Crowdsourced Geographic Data
    Open Street Map
    Code Description Why?
    ANKR Anchor Indication of past human activity or
    nearby site
    THLR Muddy water, poor visibility Indication of erosion
    POT Ceramic vessel Indication of past human activity or
    nearby site
    CV Vegetation on the coastal scarp Indication of low erosion
    HS Hearsay Indication of past human activity
    FS Good fishing spot Indication of underwater vegetation, low
    perturbation
    Name code (e.g. TL) Name of known terrestrial or underwater
    archaeological site
    Indication of past human activity
    

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27. New opportunities
    for understanding the
    ancient coastline
    Georgia Marina Andreou
    Postdoctoral Research Associate
    Classical Archaeology
    Department of Classics
    Cornell University
    gma58@cornell.edu
    https://cornell.academia.edu/Georgia
    MarinaAndreou
    andreougm
    ありがとう
    Thank you
    Ευχαριστώ
    

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