John Gifford

Associate Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy

 

 

Biography

Dr. John Gifford holds a Ph.D in Archeological Geology from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He has received his Masters Degree in Marine Science from the University of Miami and his Bachelors Degree in Geology and Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dr. Gifford is also the Coordinator of the Caribbean Marine Cultural Resources initiative and the Principal Investigator of the Little Salt Spring Archaeological Project.

 

 

Research Interests

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

 

 

Recent Publications

J.A. Gifford; "Analysis of submarine sediments off Paralia," Chapter 7 in: Franchthi Paralia: the Sediments, Stratigraphy, and Offshore Investigations. (Fascicle 6 of Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece, T.W. Jacobsen, General Editor); 1991; Indiana University Press.

J.A. Gifford; "The Geomorphology of Crete," pp. 17-26 in The Aerial Atlas of Ancient Crete (Myers and Cadogan, eds.); 1992; University of California Press.

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(4): 355-372.

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

Contact

Professor John Gifford

RSMAS/MAF
University of Miami
4600 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149

Telephone: (305) 361-4191
jgifford@rsmas.miami.edu

Last modified: 13 November 1996