An investigation of climatic change in the holocene epoch using archaeological charcoal from Swaziland, Southern Africa

Prior, Juliet; Williams, David Price

doi:10.1016/0305-4403(85)90005-6

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“…In recent years, the use of multivariate techniques for data exploration has increased, including correspondence analysis, principal components, cluster analysis and discriminant analysis (Prior and Price-Williams, 1985;Jones, 1987Jones, , 1991Heinz and Thié bault, 1998;Scheel-Ybert, 2000;Asouti, 2003). In other cases, contingency tables and four-way log-linear analysis have been employed to explore categorical variables (Kohler and Matthews, 1988).…”

Section: Numerical Analysis Of Botanical Materialsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trees and shrubs: the use of wood in prehispanic Teotihuacan

Adriano-Morán

Tapia

2008

Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: Numerical Analysis Of Botanical Materialsmentioning

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Trees and shrubs: the use of wood in prehispanic Teotihuacan

Adriano-Morán

Tapia

2008

Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…At combustion temperatures of 400 (C wood material can be distinguished from other materials by its distinctive crystallitic groundmass b fabric dominated by calcite and by the frequent occurrence of macro-sized black charcoal fragments (Table 2 [12]; [27]. The calcite crystals, which are grey in oblique incident light, have irregular surfaces, are poorly preserved and do not retain structural characteristics.…”

Section: Micromorphology Of Experimentally Combusted Materialsmentioning

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Fuel resource utilisation in landscapes of settlement

Simpson¹,

Vésteinsson²,

Adderley³

et al. 2003

Journal of Archaeological Science

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One little understood aspect of the settlement and colonisation of Iceland is fuel resource use. In this paper we identify fuel ash residues from temporally constrained middens at two contrasting settlement age sites in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland, one high status, the other low status and ultimately abandoned. Fuel residues derived from experimental combustion of historically defined fuel resources are used to provide control for thin section micromorphology and complementary image analyses of fuel residue materials found in the midden deposits. The results suggest that fuel resources utilised at the time of settlement were for both low temperature and high temperature use, and included a mix of birch and willow wood, peat, mineral-based turf and cow dung. There are, however, marked variations in the mix of fuel resources utilised at the two sites. This is considered to reflect social regulation of fuel resources and socially driven changes to local and regional environments that may have contributed to the success or failure of early settlement sites in Iceland.

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“…Additionally, the total inorganic content of the material was calculated after combustion at 750 C for 6 h (Prior and Williams, 1985;Rossen and Olson, 1985;Valenzuela-Calahorro et al, 1987;Caple and Murray, 1991). The percentage of inorganic content (IC) was estimated using the following equation (ASTM D1762-84):…”

Section: Chemical Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 99%