Jama River Valley (Geographic Keyword)
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As part of the Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador Project (PFE) (Pearsall 2016), phytolith assemblages from 82 surface soil samples from four distinctive vegetation formations, xerophytic coastal forest (Chanduy valley), mixed deciduous/evergreen forest (Jama region), coastal evergreen forest (Bilsa Biological Reserve), and Amazonian lowland forest (Jatun Sacha Biological Reserve) were studied, with the goal of establishing phytolith vegetation signatures to facilitate archaeological and...
PFE Project, Supplemental Table 1 Chanduy full data (2021)
Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador Project (PFE). Complete dataset of diagnostic phytoliths from the Chanduy locality.
PFE Project, Supplemental Table 2 Jama full data (2021)
Phytoliths in the Florida of Ecuador Project (PFE). Complete dataset of diagnostic phytoliths from Jama locality.
PFE Project, Supplemental Table 3 Bilsa full data (2021)
Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador Project (PFE). Complete dataset of diagnostic phytoliths from the Bilsa locality.
PFE Project, Supplemental Table 4 Jatun Sacha full data (2021)
Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador Project (PFE). Complete dataset of diagnostic phytoliths from the Jatun Sacha locality.
PFE Project, Supplemental Table 5 Combined data set for multivariate statistical analyses, natural log of frequency plus 1 (2021)
Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador Project (PFE). Combined phytolith data set (four localities) for multivariate statistical analyses, natural log of frequency plus 1
PFE Project, Supplemental Table 6 The discriminant functions and their classification of soil samples into data sets (2021)
Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador Project (PFE). The discriminant functions and their classification of soil samples from four localities into data sets
Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador Project
The Phytoliths in the Flora of Ecuador project was undertaken by Deborah M. Pearsall and colleagues from 1997 to 2008, with periodic work through 2012, to establish diagnostic phytolith types and phytolith vegetation signatures to enhance archaeological and paleoenvironmental phytolith applications in coastal and Amazonian Ecuador. Research was conducted in Ecuador and at the University of Missouri (MU) Paleoethnobotany Laboratory. Outcomes or products of the project include: descriptions and...
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...