Sampling underwater chert quarries in northwest Florida. A few weeks of working in the Wacissa, Aucilla, and St. Marks Rivers is paying off with some awesome new information about submerged prehistoric quarries!
When your project area floods, you have to adapt. The sites are high and dry, but the access roads are swamped due to biblical rains and consequently high rivers. The floodwaters are quickly receding though, and we carry on! This was not quite what I had in mind for underwater archaeological fieldwork…