Latest pleistocene to holocene alluvial basin construction: An example from the Nara Basin, central Japan

The burial depths of dated archaeological remains suggest that the thickness of sediment that has accumulated over the last 2000 years is around 1-2 m across large areas of the basin. The expansion of secondary forest caused by human disturbance in the historical period, and repeated landslide-induced river-bed uplift downstream from the outlet of the basin, may have promoted flood deposition in the basin.