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I have surveyed around several reservoirs in California during drought years and have found many sites. These reservoirs were built in the 1910s. Site types include dam construction sites, sawmills related to the dam work, slaughterhouses also used during construction, 19th century ranches and homesteads that were bought and innundated, prehistoric sites, mines and mining, etc. The years spent under a least 70 feet of clear fresh water fed by mountain springs and rivers resulted in preservation of wood, fabric and organic materials. Its cool to find tools, wheelbarrows, train engines, tracks, and many other features of the work site and camps with wood elements still intact!
Mary Maniery
PAR Environmental Services
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Sent: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:40 PM
Subject: Dam archaeology
Folks
In Australia, specifically SE Queensland we are in a particularly bad drought, to the point where here in Brisbane water restrictions are getting pretty severe and our main water supply is down to 20% capacity.
Despite the obvious doom and gloom this situation portends it also raises some unique opportunities for archaeologists investigating areas of land that have been for many years underwater. Is experience of working in these sorts of landscapes common? Is there a literature out there that deals with this sort of thing?
Sincerely
GrahamK
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Graham Knuckey PhD
ARCHAEO Cultural Heritage Services,
369 Waterworks Road, Ashgrove, 4060.
Queensland. AUSTRALIA.
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www.archaeo.com.au
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