Statistical Comparison of Vegetation Trends from Pollen Records in the US Southeast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this presentation, vegetation changes during the late Holocene from both anthropogenic and climatic causes will be presented from several pollen coring locations in the southeast United States. These records will be compared and contrasted, along with a summary of previous work on change over time in taxonomic evenness, richness, and diversity. Prior work has shown that there is more spatial variability in vegetation and change in diversity over time than previously discussed in the literature for this region. Greater attention in this paper will be given to the composition of taxa related to these diachronic changes with the goal of identifying the taxa that contribute most to these patterns. Specifically, principle components analysis will be used to identify which taxa or associations of taxa are driving vegetation change in different parts of the region. Given these new results, implications for local land use and cultural responses to ecological conditions will be discussed and linked to archaeological sites in the study locations.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36759.0