Hominid (Culture Keyword)
Hominids
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James Schoenwetter (Ph.D. Southern Illinois 1967) was a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. His research interests included prehistoric cultural ecology, applications of pollen analysis in archaeology and research methodology. Before his retirement in 2000 he directed the ASU Anthropology Department’s palynology lab. Pollen research by Schoenwetter and his students involved a variety of sites in Mesoamerica, North America and Europe. He directed archaeological and botanical...
Makapansgat and Buffalo Cave Palynology: A Brief Assessment of Studies During Spring, 1999 (1999)
Research initiated at the inception of the Spring 1999 semester by Mrs. Loren A.LeForce under my supervision, focused on recovery of pollen from samples collected at “the limeworks” fossil locality at Makapansgat and the Buffalo Cave locality, South Africa. The objective was assessment of the samples’ potential to provide sufficient pollen for meaningful analysis of paleoecosystem conditions, and identification of palynological contrasts amongst samples from the same locality and between...