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Wharton, Barry R. August 1979 - AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT SURVEY OF THE CONSTRUCTION IMPACT AREAS OF THE UPPER HILLSBOROUGH FLOOD DETENTION AREA, SOUTHEASTERN PASCO COUNTY, FLORIDA
ABSTRACT: An archaeological assessment survey of the construction impact zones of the Upper Hillsborough Flood Detention Area resulted in the location, identification, and evaluation of nine archaeological sites. Seven of the sites are located within the flood pool impact zone and adjacent to the conservation pool impact zone. All the sites will be adversely impacted under a temporally-protracted and cyclic regime of reservoir filling and draining, however, only three sites in the flood pool zone (8Pa46, 8Pa47, and 8Pa52) are adjudged significant, (or impor- tant), and mitigation measures (specifically, periodic site monitoring for indications of adverse impacts, and preservation by avoidance) are recommended to lessen project impacts. Four are adjudged not significant. The remaining two archaeological sites, 8Pa53 and 8Pa54, are located within the levee/control structure impact zone, and both will be directly impacted by construction and construction-related activities. In addition, both sites have been evaluated as significant. Mitigation of adverse impact by mitigative excavation is recommended. Three overall mitigation proposals are introduced for consideration. First, since a survey assessment of the flood pool impact zone falls within the preview of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' guidelines for the "identification and administration of cultural resources" (33 CFR Part 305), an intensive survey of this zone is recommended. A second overall recommendation calls for the emergency mitigative excavation of unexpectedly discovered and apparently significant archaeological resources that are to be unavoidably lost due to project construction and operation. Finally, it is recommended that additional testing and periodic monitoring of the known significant sites be carried out in order to achieve a greater understanding of their functional role in the subsistence-settlement systems of which they are a part, their informational values for research and public display/interpretation, and postulated processes and effects of the inundation and saturation/desaturation of archaeological deposits on these values.
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