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The Yonaguni Monument (Japanese: 与那国島海底地形, Hepburn: Yonaguni-jima Kaitei Chikei, lit."Yonaguni Island Submarine Topography"), also known as "Yonaguni (Island) Submarine Ruins" (与那国（島）海底遺跡, Yonaguni(-jima) Kaitei Iseki), is a submerged rock formation off the coast of Yonaguni, the southernmost of the Ryukyu Islands, in Japan.
The Takashima Kōzaki Site (鷹島神崎遺跡, Takashima kōzaki iseki) is an underwater archaeological site containing artifacts from the Kamakura period Mongol invasions of Japan located offshore the east coast of the island of Takashima in the city of Matsuura, Nagasaki Prefecture Japan. The 384,000 square meter area of the seabed was ...
On and under the seabed are archaeological sites of historic interest, such as shipwrecks and sunken towns. This underwater cultural heritage is protected by the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. The convention aims at preventing looting and the destruction or loss of historic and cultural information by ...
Founded. 6900 BCE. Abandoned. 6300 BCE. Periods. Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. Atlit Yam is a submerged ancient Neolithic village off the coast of Atlit, Israel. It has been carbon-dated as to be between 8,900 and 8,300 years old. Among the features of the 4.0 ha (10-acre) site is a stone circle.
Murujuga, formerly known as Dampier Islandand today usually known as the Burrup Peninsula, is an area in the Dampier Archipelago, in the Pilbararegion of Western Australia, containing the town of Dampier. The Dampier Rock Art Precinct, which covers the entire archipelago, is the subject of ongoing political debate due to historical and proposed ...
Monte Verde Archaeological Site Los Lagos: 2004 iii, iv (cultural) Monte Verde is an archaeological site with the remains of a settlement that has been carbon dated to be about 14,800 years old, predating the Clovis culture by about 1000 years. [30] People of Monte Verde hunted mastodons and camelids and were collecting local plants.
Researchers went underwater to investigate seven archaeological sites in the Adriatic Sea in the lagoons off the island of Grado in Italy. The finds ranged from shipwrecks to unidentified ...
The wreck has been dated to the second Proto-Helladic period, 2700–2200 BC. [2] The remains of the shipwreck are located about 15–30 metres (50–100 ft) underwater off the coast of southern Greece near the island of Dokos (ancient name Aperopia) in the Aegean Sea. [3] Dokos is about 100 kilometres (60 mi) east of Sparta, Peloponnese.