Geoarchaeological Methods for Sediment Samples from Northwestern Belize

Summary

The Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA) is an area comprised of over 260,000 acres of protected land, which is owned and managed by Programme for Belize (PfB), an entirely Belizean conservation organization. This area is ideal for geoarchaeological research that encompasses human-environment relationships by analyzing sediments. This poster will present methods and results on preliminary geoarchaeological techniques completed on sediments at the University of Texas at Austin in the Sediment Lab, within the Department of Geography and Environment. Analysis includes identification of color using the Munsell Color Chart, loss on ignition, magnetic susceptibility, grain size, and sorting.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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