The invention provides a river historic morphology digital recovery method. The method comprises the steps of on the basis of selecting a river section in which the development of an alluvial stream and terraces is complete, selecting a representative cross section of a river section which is planned to be recovered, conducting sediment cylindrical sample drilling, conducting layering according to sediment physical characteristics, recording three-dimensional space coordinates of each layer, then performing age determination on each settled layer, finally conducting line connecting on the three-dimensional space coordinates of the settled layers with an identical age in different sediment columns on the same cross section in general drawing software, wherein obtained cross section morphology is river historic morphology under the age, and conducting line connecting on the coordinates of all ages in sequence, that is, morphology recovery of the whole cross section in all history ages is completed, and the historic morphology recovery of the whole river section is completed after multiple cross sections are recovered. According to the river historic morphology digital recovery method, a geology age measuring technology and a river dynamics cross section molding principle are cross, and the method can be applied to most alluvial river historic morphology recovery, and has important practical value for study of a river landform evolutionary process.