Rising relative sea level since circa 12,500 cal BP has submerged all archaeological evidence of Paleoindian, Early and Middle Archaic, and early Late Archaic use of the Gulf of Maine shoreline.  We are left with stone tools and some fossil shellfish beds on the submerged landscape.   The submerged archaeological record is primarily investigated by scallop draggers recovering stone tools and archaeologists recording the locations and other information, a fact realized by David Black and others in the 1980s.  Subsequent diving and geological characterization of several “site” locations provide some context to Archaic use of the inundated shoreline.  This paper reviews the inundated archaeological record of the Gulf of Maine and speculates about subsistence and settlement patterns.