rainforest archaeology (Other Keyword)
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Heavy vegetation cover presents obvious difficulties in conducting archaeological survey in the Central African rainforests. Survey conducted in 2010 and 2013 along the Congo River and its tributaries, between Bumba and Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo, centered on using rivers as a means of access into dense forests.The results indicated that the region's archaeological record consists primarily of pottery finds associated with old soil horizons or pottery arranged in...
Phytoliths and the Development of Agriculture (2015)
Investigations of rainforest archaeological sites from the Koombaloomba Dam environs in the NE Queensland Wet Tropics, have established a human presence here since the early Holocene (Cosgrove et al., 2007). These open sites have yielded abundant archaeological finds including excellent preservation of plant macro-remains in the form of wood charcoal and the carbonised shells of some toxic starchy economic plant species including Beilschmiedia bancroftii, the Yellow Walnut. Examination of the...
Wet Site Archaeology (1988)
Proceedings of International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology, Gainesville, Florida, December 12-14, 1986. This conference was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Florida. Wet Site Archaeology identifies the characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites, from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida and from the Late Pleistoscene to the twentieth century. The rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated...