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 materials like insects and terrestrial mollusks. The charred botanical remains were the focus of this study, enabling a paleoenvironmental reconstruction analysis and a paleoethnobotanical interpretation 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.

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Evelyn Siegfried

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• Authors: Evelyn Siegfried
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9781407313382
• ISBN: 978-1-4073-1338-2
• No. of pages: 174
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 297 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 686 g
• Series: BAR International; BAR International Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Archäologie, Kanada, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, History - General History, HISTORY / Canada / General