| I | | Introduction | | |
| 1 | | Underwater Archaeology: Filling in the Gaps by Janet F. Barstad | | 3 |
| 2 | | Timelines of Underwater Archaeology by John D. Broadwater | | 17 |
| II | | The Geography of Underwater Archaeology | | |
| 3 | | Maine: The First Twenty-Five Years by Warren Riess | | 29 |
| 4 | | Massachusetts: The Devil to Pay and No Pitch Hot! by Victor T. Mastone | | 43 |
| 5 | | The Nautical Archaeology of Lake Champlain by Kevin J. Crisman and Arthur B. Cohn | | 55 |
| 6 | | Lake George, New York: Recent Archaeological Investigations at a Mountain Waterway by Joseph W. Zarzynski | | 75 |
| 7 | | Underwater Archaeology in Rhode Island by D. K. Abbass | | 89 |
| 8 | | The Maryland-Chesapeake Region by Susan B. M. Langley | | 101 |
| 9 | | Maritime Archaeology in North Carolina by Lawrence E. Babits | | 119 |
| 10 | | South Carolina: A Drop in the Bucket by Christopher F. Amer | | 127 |
| 11 | | Florida Frontiers: From Ice Age to New Age by Roger C. Smith | | 143 |
| 12 | | The Great Lakes States by John R. Halsey | | 169 |
| 13 | | Steamboat Archaeology on the Missouri River by Annalies Corbin | | 193 |
| 14 | | Texas Shipwrecks: Progress in the Decade 1988-1998 by J. Barto Arnold III | | 207 |
| 15 | | Maritime and Underwater Archaeology on the Pacific Coast by James P. Delgado | | 221 |
| 16 | | Underwater Archaeology, Hawaiian Style by Hans Van Tilburg | | 247 |
| 17 | | Mexico: A Country with a Rich Underwater Legacy by Pilar Luna Erreguerena | | 269 |
| 18 | | Problems and Progress in the Caribbean by Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton | | 279 |
| 19 | | Underwater Cultural Heritage in Bermuda by Clifford Earle Smith, Jr. and Edward Cecil Harris | | 299 |
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