Historical Palimpsests: Animal-Accumulated Plant Remains in Aboveground Structures

Summary

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

Archaeologists periodically encounter concentrations of uncharred plant remains in standing structures. Whether excavated or never actually buried, they are a challenge for interpretation. In addition to identification, the archaeobotanical tasks include determining the agent of deposition and the source and date of the material. This paper considers how interpretation of uncharred material has to consider the interplay between human and animal vectors with the excavated example of the Calvert Site crawl space and intramural deposits at other historic sites.

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

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Abstract Id(s): 37365.0