Floods and Archaeology
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 43 (4) , 593-607
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279491
Abstract
This study contends that flooding and related stream-flow phenomena have had an extensive impact on archaeological resources. An analysis of 1972 flood damage on 226 aboriginal sites in a portion of the Susquehanna River drainage indicates a need for special concern about differential preservation, discovery techniques, and interpretation of archaeological data in stream valley areas. Unless archaeologists and cultural resource managers take into account the natural and/or man-induced events and processes which may have affected the fluvial history of a region under study, their prediction and detection of sites-and their description, analysis, and interpretation of those that have been discovered-may be hampered seriously.Keywords
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