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  title info:
    title: Palynology, flora and vegetation of Hovenweep National Monument
    sub title: implications for aboriginal plant use on Cajon Mesa, Colorado and Utah
  name:
    name part: Weir, Glendon Hoge
    name part: 1930-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Bryant Jr., Vaughn M.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Cox, Elenor R.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Shafer, Harry J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Sperry, John J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1976
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 218 leaves ; 28 cm
  abstract: Pollen analytical studies of late postglacial alluvial and cultural sediments from the Hovenweep National Monument area on Cajon Mesa in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah provide a basis for reconstruction of Late Quaternary vegetation and a record of cultural disturbances to past vegetational patterns. Late postglacial deposits from the period of about A.D. 900 to A.D. 1300 contain fossil pollen rain evidence suggesting higher levels of available moisture and more mesic plant environments, followed by more xerophytic conditions, as compared with the environment of today reflected in the modern pollen rain and present distribution of the flora and vegetation of Cajon Mesa. The fossil pollen records from the earlier part of the period imply a more moist environment than at present through evidence of an extension of northern mesa woodlands and mesic plant elements over a greater portion of the mesa. Pollen records toward the end of the period indicate a drying trend reflected by an implied wider distribution of more xerophytic vegetation throughout the mesa. The analysis of pollen samples from aboriginal sites of Basketmaker and Pueblo Period cultural context provide data indicating use of cultigen and certain noncultigen plant taxa by prehistoric inhabitants of the area. The on- and off-site distribution of the pollen data and disturbance to certain floral and vegetational elements suggest it may be possible to identify plant use sites of aboriginal man prior to excavation, by use of a strategy of pre-excavation sampling and interpretation of floral and vegetational disturbance patterns..
  note: by Glendon Hoge Weir.
  note: "Major subject: Botany."
  note: Vita.
  note: Texas A & M University
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-111).
  subject:
    topic: Botany
    geographic: Cajon Mesa
  subject:
    topic: Palynology
    geographic: Cajon Mesa
  subject:
    topic: Prehistoric peoples
    geographic: Cajon Mesa
  subject:
    topic: Botany
  classification: QE993.2 .W43 1976
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-614608
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 770125
    record change date: 20220104090405.0
    record identifier: in00000604254
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng