Leafy Legacies: The Ecofactual Value of Surface Vegetation and a Critique of its Documentation

Author(s): John S Harris

Year: 2017

Summary

This landscape archaeology-oriented presentation concerns on-going thesis research that seeks to change the way archaeologists perform site surveys, as the prevailing method of recording site surface vegetation is of little research value. This presentation seeks to draw attention to the under-appreciated value of surface vegetation at sites as ecofacts, offering a critique of how it is presently documented on site forms, and suggesting some procedural solutions to increase their usefulness to the researcher.

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Leafy Legacies: The Ecofactual Value of Surface Vegetation and a Critique of its Documentation. John S Harris. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435370) ; doi:10.6067/XCV85D8VDK

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Keywords

Material
Flora

Investigation Types
Environment Research • Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis • Records Search / Inventory Checking

General
anthropogenic • Archaeological Documentation • Ecofacts • Flora • human-modified • surface vegetation • Vegetation

Geographic Keywords
Montana • United States

Temporal Keywords
19th Century

Spatial Coverage

min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 139

File Information

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