An Archaeological Survey, Initial Site Testing, Geomorphology, and Pollen Analysis along lower Portion of Ditch 1 Poinsett County, Arkansas.

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol S. Spears ◽  
Robert A. Taylor
Author(s):  
Sigrún Dögg Eddudóttir ◽  
Eva Svensson ◽  
Stefan Nilsson ◽  
Anneli Ekblom ◽  
Karl-Johan Lindholm ◽  
...  

AbstractShielings are the historically known form of transhumance in Scandinavia, where livestock were moved from the farmstead to sites in the outlands for summer grazing. Pollen analysis has provided a valuable insight into the history of shielings. This paper presents a vegetation reconstruction and archaeological survey from the shieling Kårebolssätern in northern Värmland, western Sweden, a renovated shieling that is still operating today. The first evidence of human activities in the area near Kårebolssätern are Hordeum- and Cannabis-type pollen grains occurring from ca. 100 bc. Further signs of human impact are charcoal and sporadic occurrences of apophyte pollen from ca. ad 250 and pollen indicating opening of the canopy ca. ad 570, probably a result of modification of the forest for grazing. A decrease in land use is seen between ad 1000 and 1250, possibly in response to a shift in emphasis towards large scale commodity production in the outlands. Emphasis on bloomery iron production and pitfall hunting may have caused a shift from agrarian shieling activity. The clearest changes in the pollen assemblage indicating grazing and cultivation occur from the mid-thirteenth century, coinciding with wetter climate at the beginning of the Little Ice Age. The earliest occurrences of anthropochores in the record predate those of other shieling sites in Sweden. The pollen analysis reveals evidence of land use that predates the results of the archaeological survey. The study highlights how pollen analysis can reveal vegetation changes where early archaeological remains are obscure.


1998 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Luisa Fernanda Herrera ◽  
Juan Carlos Berrío

<p>A partir del análisis de muestras palinológicas de Carate 25, planicie aluvial del bajo río San Jorge ubicada en el municipio de San Marcos (Sucre, Colombia), de las investigacion es arqueológicas realizadas en dicha región y de los datos cronológicos obtenidos por C<sub>14</sub>, fue posible establecer los ciclos climáticos (alternancia de períodos secos y húmedos, y de niveles de inundación bajos y altos con duración variable) y sus consecuencias fluviomorfológicas (cambios en las tasas de sedimentación) y ecológicas (predominancia relativa de vegetación de bosque vs. vegetación de sabana y de condiciones de pantano o inundación). Asociados con esta dinámica, se determinaron cambios históricos en los sistemas de aprovechamiento de los recursos. El perfil de polen cubre un rango temporal de por lo menos 800 años: desde el 1010 d.C. hasta el presente, y él se encuentra una relación entre el predominio de vegetación abierta o Sabana asociada con épocas de sequía, pudiéndose advertir que el manejo de sistemas de canales era exitoso. Así mismo, es importante ver las alteraciones que se han dado en el paisaje desde la época de ocupación por parte de grupos prehispánicos, cuando la región se encontraba cubierta de numerosos parches boscosos, hasta hoy, cuando se hallan enormes zonas cubiertas de Sabana con muy escasas zonas de vegetación arbustiva y la desaparición casi total de la vegetación de bosque.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Native Vegetation and Antropic Action during the last woo years in a Prehispanic System of Artificial Channels in Caño Carate, San Marcos (Sucre, Colombia)</strong></p><p>The research conducted compromises an analysis of pollen samples taken at the 25 Carate site, an alluvial plain of the Lower San Jorge river, located in San Marcos, Sucre, an archaeological survey carried out in the area and C14 analysis. These data allowed us the identification of climatic cycles (alternation of humid and dry periods, but also, levels of flood ing), as well as their fluviomorphological (changes in the rate of sedimentation) and ecological consequences (dominance of forest versus savanna vegetation, and swamp or flooding conditions. In connection with such evolution process, changes in resource exploitation systems were traced out. The pollen profile covers a period of time of at least 800 years, since 1010 A. D. to the present. The pollen analysis indicated that the dominance of savanna vegetation is associated with periods of drought, thus indicating that management of the artificial channels was successful. The research also provides a glimpse at land scape changes occurred from the prehispanic occupation period of the region until nowadays, in which savanna conditions prevail in most of the area previously covered by the forest vegetation.</p>


2012 ◽  
pp. 83-118
Author(s):  
Caroline Sturdy Colls

Public impression of the Holocaust is unquestionably centred on knowledge about, and the image of, Auschwitz-Birkenau – the gas chambers, the crematoria, the systematic and industrialized killing of victims. Conversely, knowledge of the former extermination camp at Treblinka, which stands in stark contrast in terms of the visible evidence that survives pertaining to it, is less embedded in general public consciousness. As this paper argues, the contrasting level of knowledge about Auschwitz- Birkenau and Treblinka is centred upon the belief that physical evidence of the camps only survives when it is visible and above-ground. The perception of Treblinka as having been “destroyed” by the Nazis, and the belief that the bodies of all of the victims were cremated without trace, has resulted in a lack of investigation aimed at answering questions about the extent and nature of the camp, and the locations of mass graves and cremation pits. This paper discusses the evidence that demonstrates that traces of the camp do survive. It outlines how archival research and non-invasive archaeological survey has been used to re-evaluate the physical evidence pertaining to Treblinka in a way that respects Jewish Halacha Law. As well as facilitating spatial and temporal analysis of the former extermination camp, this survey has also revealed information about the cultural memory.


2001 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-103
Author(s):  
JAMIE HAMILTON ◽  
CIARA CLARKE ◽  
ANDREW DUNWELL ◽  
RICHARD TIPPING

This report presents the results of the excavation of a stone ford laid across the base of a small stream valley near Rough Castle, Falkirk. It was discovered during an opencast coal mining project. Radiocarbon dates and pollen analysis of deposits overlying the ford combine to indicate a date for its construction no later than the early first millennium cal BC. Interpreting this evidence was not straightforward and the report raises significant issues about site formation processes and the interpretation of radiocarbon and pollen evidence. The importance of these issues extends beyond the rarely investigated features such as fords and deserve a larger place in the archaeological literature.


Author(s):  
Giancarlo Alfonsi ◽  
Agostino Lauria ◽  
Leonardo Primavera

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Prangnell

<p>An archaeological survey on Peel Island in Moreton Bay, southeast Queensland, was conducted to assist the conservation planning for the Peel Island Lazaret (PIL), one of a number of institutions housed on the island during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The survey revealed a patterning of artefacts across the island as well as landscape modification related to its Aboriginal and European institutional uses.</p>


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