Human Geosciences (H)
Session Sub-category Complex & General(CG)
Session ID H-CG20
Title Exploring the submerged landscape and human past
Short Title Submerged landscape
Main Convener Name Yasuhisa Kondo
Affiliation Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Co-Convener 1 Name Wataru Tanikawa
Affiliation Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, X-star, Kochi Institute for Core Sample Research
Co-Convener 2 Name Simon Edward Fitch
Affiliation University of Bradford, UK
Session Language 
E
Scope 
The sea level of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM; centred on 21,000 years ago) was 120-135 meters lower than the present level. The post-LGM transgression made continental shelves hold a submerged record of Late Glacial landscape (ca. 15,000 to 11,700 years ago). The recent development of underwater survey devices, such as side-scan sonars, sub-bottom profilers, and underwater drones, have unlocked a high-precision modeling of sea/lake bottom to reconstruct submerged past landscape, which was associated with past human activities on the coastal area. This session reviews (but is not limited to) the latest research on the submerged landscape with the aid of state-of-the-art approaches. We hope this session be an opportunity of networking experts in related fields to develop this interdisciplinary field of research in geoscience.
Presentation Format Oral and Poster presentation
Joint Session with EGU
Time Presentation No Title Presenter
Oral Presentation May 24 PM2
15:30 - 15:45 HCG20-01 Introduction to submerged landscape Yasuhisa Kondo
15:45 - 16:00 HCG20-02 Life On The Edge: innovative approaches to submerged landscape studies from across the globe Simon Edward Fitch
16:00 - 16:15 HCG20-03 Underwater Archaeological Approaches to the Early Holocene Human Trace in Cavern Environments Jun Kimura
16:15 - 16:30 HCG20-04 Three-dimensional reconstruction of the submerged post town “Hibara-juku” using geoscientific approaches Wataru Tanikawa
16:30 - 16:45 HCG20-05 The Story of a Valley; Reconstructing Palaeolandscapes in Aomori Prefecture Robyn Bennett Pelling
16:45 - 17:00 HCG20-06 Roundtable discussion Yasuhisa Kondo
Presentation No Title Presenter
Poster Presentation May 24 PM3
HCG20-P01 An ecological niche model of Paleolithic lithic groups reconstructed global submerged landscape during the Late Pleistocene Yasuhisa Kondo
HCG20-P02 Toward a Reconstruction of Human Survival History in the Japanese Archipelago Based on Integrated Research of Tsunami- and Tephra-Buried Archaeological Sites Yuhji Yamamoto
HCG20-P03 Effectiveness of Sediment Core Analyses for Submerged Archaeological Sites: A Case Study from Lake Hibara, Japan Wataru Tanikawa