Palynology in Historical Rural-Landscape Studies
Great Meadows, Pennsylvania
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2576092 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerald K Kelso (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-372 |
| Publication date | 1994-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/281937 |
| OpenAlex | W2320094229 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 11 |
Pollen deposited on the ground surface is carried down into the soil by percolating groundwater. Such postdepositional pollen transport preserves the record of historical vegetation and land use in slowly or nonaggrading sediment profiles by separating the pollen spectra of successive ground covers. This is demonstrated at Great Meadows, Pennsylvania, where pollen spectra in hillside cores indicating a preagricultural-era forest are succeeded during the clearance and agricultural period by weed and cereal pollen during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These are, in turn, replaced by grass during the park period of the last 65 years. The preagricultural pollen spectra indicate that differences in historical ground cover across relatively short horizontal distances and elevations can be reconstructed with pollen analysis
Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Groundwater · Hydrology (agriculture) · Palynology · Period (music) · Physical geography · Pollen · Vegetation (pathology) · Ecology · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Lichen and fungal ecology · Tree-ring climate responses
Urban Gardens and Parks in Pre-modern States and Empires
Recent Research in Paleoethnobotany
Locating the Pre-Clearance Forest Border at Fort Necessity, Great Meadows, Pennsylvania, Using Pollen Analysis
Pollen analysis of the feature 4 privy at the Cross Street Back Lot Site, Boston, Massachusetts
Intersecting Landscapes
Differential pollen preservation in a seventeenth-century refuse pit, Jamestown Island, Virginia
Landscapes, land use, and the history of territory formation
Techniques used by historical archaeologists to study American landscapes and gardens
A Historical and Archaeological Study of the Nineteenth Century Hudson's Bay Company Garden at Fort Vancouver
Historical and Anthropological Archaeology
Recovering Ethnobotanical and Local Environmental Pollen Data from an Exposed Archaeological Site in Northeastern North America
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1995 - 2016 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |