Thanks Gwyn yes,

Another Hist-Arch lister has mentioned the same, the fact that in  
some (US) states reservoir water levels are lowered in winter to  
allow for the coming spring melt, exposing areas usually inundated.  
Does this allow for the same sites to be analysed on a regular basis?  
Seems to me an excellent opportunity to test for and experiment with  
taphonomic processes.

Graham Knuckey - [log in to unmask]
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On 13/04/2007, at 8:08 am, G. Alcock wrote:

> In addition to sites uncovered by drought (an increasingly common   
> phenomenon here in the western US), you might consider sites  
> uncovered  for other reasons.
>
>   For example, Southern California Edison (a power company) has   
> hydroelectric systems in the high Sierra Nevada, taking advantage  
> of  the steep face of the eastern Sierra. Each winter, the  
> reservoirs are  drained, exposing sites previously below the  
> waterline. Some of these  reservoirs or systems have been coming up  
> for environmental  "recertification", prompting test excavations of  
> the sites. This work  is done in the narrow window --- a few weeks  
> --- between the draining  of the reservoir in fall and the  
> predicted first snowfall (which  effectively closes trails in and  
> out).
>
>   Gwyn Alcock
>   Riverside, California
>
>
> Graham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  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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