The Preliminary Report of the National Reservoir Inundation Study

by Daniel Lenihan

Excerpt from The Preliminary Report of the National Reservoir Inundation Study, 1977 Prewitt, 1972; Anderson, 1974; Lenihan, 1974; Garrison, 1974; Carrell, 1974; Ruppe and Green, 1979; Prewitt, Environmental impact statements initiated by various Federal agencies have advanced models for understanding the effects of inundation on archeological sites, ranging from those based on the assumption that all is preserved and protected for posterity, to those based on the assumption that all sites will turn into masses of unrecognizable gelatinous material, with no remaining data-retrieval potential. The one elementcommon to all of the assertions being made at this point regarding the overall effects of inundation on cultural resources is that they are highly speculative and scientifically unsupportable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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About the author

Underwater archaeologist. Dan was the founding chief of what is now the Submerged Resources Center of the US National Park Service. He also co-authored three novels with Hollywood actor Gene Hackman.

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