John Gifford

Dr. Gifford’s research interests include prehistoric underwater archaeology, remote sensing techniques, marine cultural resource management and geoarchaeology.

2005a “Coastal change and archaeological settings in Elis,” John C. Kraft, G.R. Rapp, Jr., John A. Gifford, and S.E. Aschenbrenner. Hesperia, 74(1): 1-39.

2005b “Holocene paleohydrology of Little Salt Spring, Florida, based on ostracod assemblages and stable isotopes,” Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, Peter K. Swart, John A. Gifford, and Patricia L. Blackwelder, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 225: 134-156.

J.A. Gifford, G. Rapp, Jr., and V. Vitali; "Paleogeography of Carthage (Tunisia): coastal change during the first millennium BC," Journal of Archaeological Science, 19 (1992): 575-596.

V. Vitali, J.A. Gifford, F. Djindjian, and G. Rapp; "A formalized approach to analysis of geoarchaeological sediment samples: the location of the early Punic harbor of at Carthage, Tunisia ; Geoarchaeology, 7 (1992): 545-581.

J.A. Gifford; Videography and geographical information systems for recording the excavation of a prehistoric underwater site; International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, 22 (1993): 167-172.

J.A. Gifford; "The Physical Geology of the Western Mesara and Kommos, Chapter 3 in: Kommos I: The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town (Shaw and Shaw, eds.); 1995; Princeton University Press.

M.D. Pohl, K.O. Pope, J.G. Jones, J.S. Jacob, D.R. Piperno, S. deFrance, D.L. Lentz, J.A. Gifford, M. Danforth, and J.K. Josserand, "Early Agriculture in the Maya Lowlands," Latin American Antiquity, 74 (1996): 355-372.

J.A. Gifford, "Mapping Shipwreck Sites by Digital Stereovideogrammetry," Underwater Archaeology Proceedings, (1997): 9-16.

J.A. Gifford “Geoarchaeological analysis of sediment samples from the Brickell Point Site (8Da12),” The Florida Anthropologist, 57 (2004): 59-83.

Carlos A. Alvarez Zarikian, P.K. Swart, J.A. Gifford, and P.L.Blackwelder, “Holocene paleohydrology of Little Salt Spring, Florida, based on ostracod assemblages and stable isotopes,”  Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 225 (2005):