Practice question · True or false
A river that has shifted course since antiquity can make an ancient settlement's siting look irrational.
Hints
- Is the terrain you see the terrain they saw?
- Coastlines and rivers move.
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True
Why
True. Ephesus sits stranded miles from the sea its harbour once opened onto, and Ostia the same. Reasoning about ancient choices from modern terrain silently assumes a stability the landscape does not have, which is why geoarchaeology reconstructs the contemporary surface first.
Practise Physical Geography and Geomorphology
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