Archaeological Surveys and Environmental Change: Mongolia and Montana Comparisons

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Over the last twenty years extensive pedestrian surveys have been conducted along the Targavatai and Burgastai Valleys in northern Mongolia and in Weatherman Draw in south central Montana. What is clear, in both cases, is that the land surfaces of these areas have been greatly altered by changes in precipitation and soil depositional patterns. In both locations site visibility has either been increased due to erosion or disappeared as cultural materials are covered with recently deposited wind or water born sediments. This presentation takes a comparative look at these two different localities and demonstrates how new soil depositional processes have affected archaeological sites in both areas.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 37800.0