Unfortunately, around here (central Pennsylvania) it means that the same
sites are exposed for artifact hunters to pick over year after year.
I'm specifically thinking of prehistoric sites on the valley floor, in
former cultivated fields that are now regularly inundated and exposed
with the seasons for floodwater management.
Meli Diamanti
Graham wrote:
> 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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