A River Runs through It: Tales of River Management Practices on the Great Hungarian Plain

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Wetlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

People are intricately connected to the land around them, and throughout time, people have manipulated their surroundings to better fit their immediate social, cultural, economic, or subsistence needs with little to no thought about long-term environmental consequences. The Great Hungarian Plain is no exception, and during different periods in the past, people have significantly altered the landscape with varying outcomes. Through three case studies, one historic (eighteenth–nineteenth centuries) and two Late Neolithic (5000–4500 BC), this paper will compare how people on the Great Hungarian Plain interacted with and transformed the braided river channels that traversed the landscape. These transformations reflect peoples’ knowledge and understanding of sustainable water management and the impacts of human-induced landscape changes.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Archaeology of Wetlands   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39260.0