Paleoethnobotany on the Northern Plains: The Tuscany Archaeological Site (EgPn-377), Calgary - BAR International Series 2691
- Anno: 2014
- Autore/i: Evelyn Siegfried
- Catalogo: BAR British Archaeological Reports
- Argomento: Archeologia
- ISBN: 9781407313382
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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 in situ paleo-vegetation cover found in a dry-land site on the high plains of North America during the early Holocene.
F.to 21x29, Brossura, pp. 155, Ill. b/n