Hello Lawrence - and all
To avert a deluge of interesting but not relevant posts, I meant
'waterlogged material of any kind' IN THE CONTEXT OF BURNT MOUNDS!
Apologies for any ambiguity.
Cheers
Allan
On Apr 13 2007, Lawrence Kaplan wrote:
> Dear Allan, If you really mean "waterlogged material of any kind" I would
> refer you to our study of over two hundred wooden stakes or posts used in
> a Native American fishweir. The site is beneath the "backbay" section of
> Boston, Massachusetts, USA and dates range to about 8000 ybp. Our primary
> interest was in identification and seasonality. Kaplan, L., Mary B.
> Smith, Lesley Sneddon. 1990. The Boylston Street Site: Revisited.
> Economic Botany 44(4): 516-528. Good luck! Lawrence Kaplan
>
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>From: The archaeobotany mailing list on behalf of Allan Hall
>Sent: Fri 4/13/2007 4:15 AM
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>Subject: Burnt mounds!
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> I am currently looking at some samples of moss preserved beneath wooden
> troughs within each of seven burnt mounds (aka fulachta fiadh) from a
> series of sites in Counties Mayo and Roscommon in W Ireland, and am
> checking for comparanda. I know large numbers of these mounds have been
> examined archaeologically from Ireland - and elsewhere in the British
> Isles - but have not so far found any reports on preserved moss layers
> (most archaeobotanical work associated with these mounds deals only with
> small amounts of charcoal, so far as I can see). Does anyone have any
> knowledge of studies in which waterlogged material OF ANY KIND has been
> encountered and examined archaeobotanically?
>
>Many thanks, in anticipation!
>
>Allan
>
-- Dr Allan Hall, English Heritage Senior Research Fellow, Department of
Archaeology, University of York, The King's Manor, York YO1 7EP, U.K. Tel.
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