Environment Research (Investigation Type)
These are studies that examine aspects of the present or past natural environment to provide a context, often off-site, for interpreting archaeological resources. Sometimes reported in stand-alone volumes representing significant research, such investigations may include geomorphological, paleontological, or palynological work.
1,401-1,425 (2,079 Records)
Microfossil analysis is a technique used to better understand prehistoric diets. As part of a larger multinational project, we gathered and analyzed 112 samples of dental calculus (fossilized plaque) from human remains discovered at Paquimé and other sites in the Casas Grandes river valley to identify various microfossils still present in the silica matrix. With this information, we are able to better understand the flora present during ancient times and how it was used (food, processing, etc.).
Plant Remains (1982)
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Plant Utilization in Southeastern New Mexico: Botany, Ethnobotany and Archaeology (2017)
This guide covers the most common plants found in the Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) region and documents their uses by the Native peoples of Southeast New Mexico, both archaeologically and historically. This book provides descriptions and photographs of 55 families, covering 172 species, with another 159 species mentioned as part of the description of a similar species, for a total of 331 plant species. There are over 700 photographs, 190 tables, and 190 figures....
Plantation Site (MI-63), an Early Caddoan Settlement in Eastern Oklahoma (1977)
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Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley (2004)
"Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley" explores the interrelationships between the prehistoric residents of a small valley in coastal Ecuador (South America) and the dry tropical forest habitat in which they lived. The book has three related objectives. First, "Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador" is an ethnobotany, a work that explores how, through the medium of culture, people shape and are shaped by the world in which they live. I take as my...
Plates - Geology and Ground-Water Resources of Cherokee County, Alabama (1965)
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Plates - Ground-Water Resources and Geology of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (1962)
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Platform Mounds of the Arizona Desert: An Experiment in Organizational Complexity (1993)
Platform mounds were built by the prehistoric Salado and Hohokam people of southern Arizona from the 13th through the 15th century A.O., the Classic period. They are basically artificial, flat-topped hills on which the ruling families of the day built their homes. Additional residences and storage rooms were built around the base of a mound, and the whole was enclosed within a compound wall. Each mound was the administrative, ceremonial, and economic center for a small-scale political system,...
Playa Site Forms Combined (2009)
Arch Playa Site forms.
PLC dataset from San Andrés, Tabasco, México
To be added
Pleistocene and Recent Environments In the Central Great Plains (1970)
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Pleistocene and Recent Environments of the Central Great Plains (1970)
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Pleistocene Geology of Eastern South Dakota (1955)
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Pohnpei Water Projects Survey Report, Historic Sites Survey: Evaluation and Recommendations (1985)
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Pollen Analyses of Offshore Samples (2021)
Twenty pollen samples collected from seven cores were examined to provide a stratigraphic record of vegetation. In addition, charcoal from three of the pollen samples were radiocarbon dated to provide date context for Cores 4, 15, and 16.
Pollen Analyses of Samples from New Jersey (2021)
A series of pollen samples representing five cores were submitted for pollen analysis. The pollen signatures from these cores are discussed below.
Pollen Analysis at 4-MAD-223 (1976)
Attempt to recover pollen from two surface and a stratified series of archaeological-context samples was only successful for most recently deposited sediments. Moss polster and surface sediment samples yielded statistically comparable pollen spectra.
Pollen Analysis at Arizona 1:15:18 (1965)
Study of 8 pollen samples for vegetation reconstruction and site dating.
Pollen Analysis in the Wetherill Mesa Region (1960)
Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archeology, 1960. Illustration of five types of archaeologically relevant information from pollen study of site-context sediment samples: which sites do and do not yield pollen data; intra-site cross-dating of sample proveniences; information on cultivated plants; and relationships of cultural activities to environmental conditions.
A Pollen Analysis of a Hudson's Bay Company Non-garden Provenience, Fort Vancouver, Washington
The Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston conducted a palynological analysis on six contiguous soil samples that were collected from the Fort Vancouver site. The samples were recovered from a location associated with the Hudson Bay Company's occupation that is situated in close proximity to what is today Fort Vancouver's Visitors Center, which is scheduled to undergo extensive renovations in the near future (Dorset 2010 Pers. Comm.)....
A Pollen Analysis of a Hudson's Bay Company Non-garden Provenience, Fort Vancouver, Washington. (2011)
The Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Massachusetts Boston conducted a palynological analysis on six contiguous soil samples that were collected from the Fort Vancouver site. The samples were recovered from a location associated with the Hudson Bay Company's occupation that is situated in close proximity to what is today Fort Vancouver's Visitors Center, which is scheduled to undergo extensive renovations in the near future (Dorset 2010 Pers. Comm.)....
POLLEN ANALYSIS OF AN ARCHAIC CAMPSITE (AR 03-10-08-422) IN LOS ALAMOS COUNTY, NEW MEXICO (1981)
Site AR 03-10-08-422 is an Archaic campsite located on a forested slope in Water Canyon, Los Alamos County, New Mexico. The site is situated on a southeast-facing slope at an elevation of about 8450 feet above sea level and displays elements of both the Transition and Canadian vegetation zones (Friedlander and Pinyan 1980). Weber (1976) assigns plants at this altitude to the Upper Montane and Lower Subalpine zones. A steep slope rises sharply from the northern edge of the site, and the...
Pollen Analysis of Cochiti Project Materials: Preliminary Report (1964)
This study of 23 pollen samples allows recognition of a sequence of ecosystem changes occurring in central New Mexico between A.D. 1280 and 1400 and also in the 1650 - 1750 period. It also discusses the effects of such changes on aboriginal maize agriculture. Draft of the report included in Archaeological Excavations at Pueblo del Encierro (1976). Pollen diagram and tables missing.
POLLEN ANALYSIS OF FIVE SITES (48SWl695, 48SWl690, 48CR698, 48CR40, AND 48ABl8) ALONG THE TRAILBLAZER PIPELINE IN SOUTHERN WYOMING (1981)
Forty-six pollen samples were selected for analysis from five archaeological sites (48SW1695, 48SW1,690, 48CR698, 48DR40, and 48AB18) along the Trailblazer Pipeline in southern Wyoming. These sites are associated with relatively stabilized dunes or aeolian depositions in Sweetwater, Carbon, and Albany Counties. The samples represent stratigraphic columns removed from each of the sites to gather information concerning the paleoenvironment in southern and southwestern Wyoming. These changes...
Pollen Analysis of Quaternary Sediments, Particularly in the Southwest (1967)
Paper presented as an invited lecture to graduate students in Botany at Arizona State University. Discusses the history and outcomes of Quaternary pollen studies in the desert Southwest of the United States.