Lo primero que se me ocurre son los trabajos del geoarqueologo M. Waters. Analiza distribuciones de sitios a orillas del rio Gila (Arizona). Fijate si te sirve.
1. Bates, M. R. & Bates, C. R. 2000. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Geoarchaeological Evaluation of Deeply Stratified Sedimentary Sequences: Examples from Pleistocene and Holocene Deposits in Southern England, United Kingdom. Journal of Archaeological Science 27:845–858.
2. Vannière, B., Bossuet, G., Walter-Simonnet, A.-V. , Gauthier, E., Barral, P., Petit, C., Buatier, M. & Daubigney, A. 2003. Land use change, soil erosion and alluvial dynamic in the lower Doubs Valley over the 1st millenium AD (Neublans, Jura, France). Journal of Archaeological Science 30: 1283–1299.
3. Smith, D. N. & Howard, A. J. 2004. Identifying changing fluvial conditions in low gradient alluvial archaeological landscapes: can Coleoptera provide insights into changing discharge rates and floodplain evolution? Journal of Archaeological Science 31: 1009-120.
This one is about river channel morphology of Blue Nile tributaries in general, and initial observations on possible riverine foraging at the MSA site of SM-1 in NW Ethiopia, which is located on one of those tributaries called Shinfa:
Kappelman J, Tewabe D, Todd L, Feseha M, Kay M, Kocurek G, Nachman B, Tabor N, Yadeta M. 2014. Another unique river: A consideration of some of the characteristics of the trunk tributaries of the Nile River in northwestern Ethiopia in relationship to their aquatic food resources. Journal of Human Evolution 77:117–131.