Animas-La Plata Project: Environmental studiesJames M. Potter This volume of the Animas-La Plata series (SWCA Anthropological Research Paper No. 10) contains three sections: geomorphological studies, archaeobotanical studies, and vertebrate faunal studies. The first section comprises studies of landscape change and stability, soil fertility, and paleoclimate in Ridges Basin. The second section comprises six chapters describing and interpreting modern environmental, macrobotanical, and pollen analyses conducted as part of the project. The final section describes and interprets the vertebrate faunal data recovered during project excavations. |
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List of Tables | 15 |
Introduction to Environmental Studies of the AnimasLa Plata Project 1 | 15 |
Geomorphic Research in Ridges BasinResearch Questions and Goals 9 | 15 |
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achenes aggradation agricultural alluvial fan ALP project archaeobotanical archaeological Artemisia Asteraceae basin bottom Basin Creek Basin Shrub Basketmaker Blue Mesa bones Building Sequence Carbon Mountain caryopsis charcoal Cheno-am Colluvium Colorado common bean deposits drought Early Summer Eastern Fabaceae faunal assemblage FB NF Feature Figure floodplain flotation samples flowering Gambel's Oak/Oak Garden Plot grass groups High Spine Indeterminate insect-pollinated juniper landforms landscape locations Locus macrobotanical maize Mammal Marsh and Streamside modern pollen MPC Station NF NF NF North-central Cluster Number of Contexts PDSI values Peraphyllum percent pigweed Piñon-juniper Piñon-juniper/Mountain Shrub pit structure plant communities Poaceae pollen pollen grains pollen samples pollen wash samples ponderosa pine prehistoric present Pueblo Pueblo I Habitation Pueblo I period purslane radiocarbon record recovered Ridges Basin Ridges Basin Plant Sacred Ridge sagebrush season sediment seeds Shrub soils species specimens sunflower family surface Table taxa Taxon ungulate Western Cluster wild plants Wildcat Ridge