Paleoethnobotany On The Northern Plains: The Tuscany Archaeological Site (Egpn-377), Calgary (Bar International)

An extensive sediment sampling project was part of the overall excavation strategy for the Tuscany Site Archaeological Project (EgPn-377), location of the University of Calgary field school from 1995-1997. A series of paleosols in the lower stratigraphy yielded charred botanical remains and other materials like insects and terrestrial mollusks. The charred botanical remains were the focus of this study, enabling a paleoenvironmental reconstruction analysis and a paleoethnobotanical interpreetation for people living in the landscape at ~7800 years ago. This study provides a very rare glimpse and summary of some of the in situ paleo-vegetation cover found in a dry-land site on the high plains of North America during the early Holocene.

• • Author: Evelyn Siegfried
• • Publisher: British Archaeological Reports
• • Publication Date: Dec 31, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 155 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 140731338X
• • ISBN-13: 9781407313382