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DOCUMENT Citation Only Graham A Callaway.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Current Research on Virginia Plantations: Reexamining Historic Landscapes" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Living things have much to tell archaeologists. This paper will discuss ongoing research on the ways living things can be approached archaeologically, with case studies drawn from historic landscapes in Virginia. Living plants and animals can be considered as individual artifacts, as landscape-scale...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Graham Callaway.

This is an abstract from the "Entangled Legacies: Human, Forest, and Tree Dynamics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Human activities have a strong influence on the species makeup of wooded landscapes. This means that the species present in a wooded area can be a useful line of evidence for understanding past land use. However, patterns of ecological succession are complex and influence by many factors, including the types of plants and animals...