Pollen Analysis and Mexican Archaeology: An Attempt to Apply the Method

Loren C. Eiseley; Edward S. Deevey

doi:10.2307/210839

Pollen Analysis and Mexican Archaeology: An Attempt to Apply the Method

American Antiquity ◽

10.2307/275110 ◽

1944 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 135-149 ◽

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Author(s):

Edward S. Deevey

Keyword(s):

Mexico City ◽

Pollen Analysis ◽

Field Trip ◽

Financial Resources ◽

Archaeological Material ◽

Cultural Sites ◽

Middle America ◽

Mexican Archaeology ◽

Previous Training ◽

Pollen Analyses

The studies reported here were made during a brief field trip to Mexico in the summer of 1941, when two weeks were spent in Mexico City and one week was spent in Michoacán. In so far as archaeological material was touched, they represent a venture into a field of research in which the author possesses no competence or previous training. The main object of the trip was limnological, and financial resources were meager. How blind the resulting gropings were was fully appreciated only after the trip, when a better acquaintance with the literature on Middle America was possible. Although some definite results were achieved in the form of a respectable pollen sequence 6.2 meters in length, obtained from deposits of the modern Lake Patzcuaro, the pollen analyses from cultural sites in the Valley of Mexico and at Tzintzuntzan were negative. Nevertheless, it is felt that their publication is justified, since the method, if properly applied, holds distinct promise, and future workers will undoubtedly wish to know what was done and wherein the failure lay.

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Faegri, Knut & Iversen, Jons., Textbook of Pollen Analysis. Third revised edition by K. Faegri. 295 Seiten, 31 Abb., 13 Tab. Munksgaard Copenhagen, 1975. Preis 100 Dan.Kr.

Feddes Repertorium ◽

10.1002/fedr.4910880409 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 88 (4) ◽

pp. 302-304

Author(s):

E. Lange

Keyword(s):

Pollen Analysis

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A Prehistoric Ford near Rough Castle, Falkirk

Scottish Archaeological Journal ◽

10.3366/saj.2001.23.2.91 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 91-103

Author(s):

JAMIE HAMILTON ◽

CIARA CLARKE ◽

ANDREW DUNWELL ◽

RICHARD TIPPING

Keyword(s):

Coal Mining ◽

Pollen Analysis ◽

Site Formation ◽

Site Formation Processes ◽

Formation Processes ◽

Radiocarbon Dates ◽

Small Stream ◽

Mining Project ◽

First Millennium

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.

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