Paleoethnobotany on the Northern Plains : the Tuscany Archaeological Site (EgPn-377), Calgary /
Siegfried, Evelyn,author.
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155).
Introduction -- Methodology -- Calgary setting, immediate site setting and site cultural features -- The macrobotanicals -- The spatial analysis -- Local ecological and cultural landscapes identified -- Pollen and  macrofossil studies in Southern Alberta --Regional Paleosol studies and the Tuscany site.
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
Paleoethnobotany
Plant remains (Archaeology)
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of North America