Paleoethnobotany on the Northern Plains
Subtitle: the Tuscany Archaeological Site (EgPn-377), Calgary
By: Evelyn Siegfried
Series: BAR international series -- 2691; BAR international series -- 2691.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781407313382
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology); Plant remains (Archaeology); Antiquities; Indians of North America; Paleoethnobotany
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155).