Paleoethnobotany on the Northern Plains : the Tuscany Archaeological Site (EgPn-377), Calgary /
An extensive sediment sampling project was part of the overall excavation strategy for the Tuscany Site Archaeological Project (EgPn-377), location of the University of Calgary field school from 1995-1997. A series of paleosols in the lower stratigraphy yielded charred botanical remains and other ma...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, England :
Archaeopress,
2014.
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| Series: | BAR international series ;
2691. |
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| Summary: | An extensive sediment sampling project was part of the overall excavation strategy for the Tuscany Site Archaeological Project (EgPn-377), location of the University of Calgary field school from 1995-1997. A series of paleosols in the lower stratigraphy yielded charred botanical remains and other materials like insects and terrestrial mollusks. The charred botanical remains were the focus of this study, enabling a paleoenvironmental reconstruction analysis and a paleoethnobotanical interpreetation for people living in the landscape at ~7800 years ago. This study provides a very rare glimpse and summary of some of the paleo-vegetation cover found in a dry-land site on the high plains of North America during the early Holocene.--Publisher website |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 155 pages : illustrations, maps ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155). |
| ISBN: | 9781407313382 140731338X |