LATE HOLOCENE LACUSTRINE CHRONOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF ANCIENT LAKE CAHUILLA, CALIFORNIA Academic Article

abstract

• AbstractFreshwater lakes existed intermittently in the Salton Trough of southern California during the late Holocene. The lakes formed north of the subaerial Colorado River Delta whenever the Colorado River flowed west into the trough instead of south to the Gulf of California. Water filled the trough to a maximum altitude of 12 m. Stratigraphy, radiocarbon dates, and supplementary evidence document four lacustral intervals of Lake Cahuilla between A.D. 700 and 1580. Archaeological sites are associated with the 12-m shoreline and their occupation correlates with these lacustral intervals.

authors

• Waters, Michael

published proceedings

• QUATERNARY RESEARCH

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• WATERS, M. R.

citation count

• 81

complete list of authors

• WATERS, MR

publication date

• May 1983

publisher

• Cambridge University Press (CUP)  Publisher

published in

• Quaternary Research  Journal

keywords

• 37 Earth Sciences
• 3705 Geology
• 3709 Physical Geography And Environmental Geoscience
• 43 History, Heritage And Archaeology
• 4301 Archaeology
• 4303 Historical Studies

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0033-5894(83)90042-X

start page

• 373

end page

• 387

volume

• 19

issue

• 3

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1016%2F0033-5894%2883%2990042-x