Archaeology and paleogeography of a Lake‐Wetland complex

This study uses a combination of isostatic rebound, hydrological flow, and sedimentation models to generate predictions about the postglacial evolution (from ca. 12.0 ka cal BP to the modern‐day) of the Kawartha Lakes region of central Ontario, Canada. Changes in shoreline and wetland configuration are mapped and quantified so as to inform understanding of the environmental history of the region and illuminate the manner of its evolution. This knowledge is discussed in the context of the human history of the region, particularly the relationship between ancestral Indigenous communities and their relationship to lakes and wetlands. Areas of significant shoreline transgression are identified and thus where inundated archaeological sites are likely to exist. The scale of loss of wetland areas as a result of 19th‐century dam construction is also estimated along with the impacts of settler dams on Michi Saagigg Nishaabeg First Nations traditional harvesting practices

Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Geography · Marine transgression · Palaeogeography · Physical geography · Shore · Structural basin · Wetland · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes · Soil erosion and sediment transport · Ecology · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology

• The Archaeology of Inundated Cultural Landscapes in Freshwater Lake Systems

  Open Access•James Conolly, Michael Obie•Journal of Maritime Archaeology•2021

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• The Once and Future Great Lakes Country

  John L Riley•Once and Future Great Lakes Country•2013

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• Before Ontario

  Marit K Munson, Susan M Jamieson•Before Ontario•2013

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• A severe centennial-scale drought in midcontinental North America 4200 years ago and apparent global linkages

  Open Access•Robert K Booth, Stephen T Jackson et al.•The Holocene•2005

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• Holocene water levels at Rice Lake, Ontario, Canada

  Open Access•Zicheng Yu, John H Mcandrews•The Holocene•1994

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• Glacial lake levels and Eastern Great Lakes Palaeo-Indians

  Open Access•L J Jackson, Catherine J Ellis et al.•Geoarchaeology•2000

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• Holocene paleoshorelines, water levels and submerged prehistoric site potential of Rice Lake (Ontario, Canada)

  Open Access•Elizabeth Sonnenburg, Elizabeth P Sonnenburg et al.•Journal of Archaeological Science•2012

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• The Archaeology of Southern Ontario to A.D. 1650

  Open Access•Martha A Latta•Internet Archaeology•2001

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• Early Human Settlement of Northeastern North America

  Open Access•Jonathan C Lothrop, Darrin Lowery et al.•PaleoAmerica•2016

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• Climate Change and the Archaic to Woodland Transition (3000–2500 Cal B.P.) in the Mississippi River Basin

  Open Access•T R Kidder•American Antiquity•2006

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• The Fishweirs at Atherley Narrows, Ontario

  Open Access•Richard B Johnston, Kenneth A Cassavoy•American Antiquity•1978

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• The persistence of place

  Open Access•Samantha Walker•Journal of Anthropological…•2019

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