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dc.contributor.authorBeck, Wendy Elizabethen
local.source.editorEditor(s): J Balme & A Patersonen
dc.date.accessioned2009-05-07T09:13:00Z-
dc.date.issued2006-
dc.identifier.citationArchaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analyses, p. 296-315en
dc.identifier.isbn9781405148863en
dc.identifier.isbn0631235744en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/1516-
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: A Scene -'We are standing at the mouth of a sandstone rockshelter in the mountains of central New South Wales in Australia, having just climbed up from the creek below. The floor of the rockshelter is sunny and warm at this time of day. I turn to my archaeologist colleague: “I think this floor is gray because it containsorganic material.” He nods and peers at the sandy floor, which has a little mound at the side of the shelter: “There is a fossick hole here, I can see some kangaroo bone.” We kneel down to look more closely, and sticking out of the surface we can see some knotted fibers and large seeds on the surface of the mounded deposit. “Are these plant remains? What are these seeds?” he asks. Because of my prior knowledge I recognized them as Macrozamia by their shapeand size and the tiny holes in the ends. He says, “They are unusually well preserved, but I guess they are just on the surface and have blown in here, so there isn’t much use in looking further. It would be too hard to use flotation anyway, as the creek is dry at the moment, and they wouldn’t tell us anything much about the microlith industry around here anyway.”'This scene illustrates the three main issues for the archaeological analysis of plant remains. The first of these issues is the question of what plant remains can contribute to archaeology as a whole; the second is the problems associated with the identification and origin of plant remains; and the third is the available methods that can be effectively used to retrieve and analyze plant remains. I will return to the scene in a case study showing how we addressed the issues at this rockshelter but, first, a general introduction to the issues is needed.en
dc.languageenen
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Ltden
dc.relation.ispartofArchaeology in Practice: A Student Guide to Archaeological Analysesen
dc.relation.isversionof1en
dc.titlePlant Remainsen
dc.typeBook Chapteren
dc.subject.keywordsApplied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen
local.contributor.firstnameWendy Elizabethen
local.subject.for2008200401 Applied Linguistics and Educational Linguisticsen
local.identifier.epublicationsvtls086504813en
local.subject.seo750901 Understanding Australia?s pasten
local.profile.schoolSchool of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciencesen
local.profile.emailwbeck@une.edu.auen
local.output.categoryB1en
local.record.placeauen
local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordpes:4532en
local.publisher.placeMalden, United States of Americaen
local.identifier.totalchapters15en
local.format.startpage296en
local.format.endpage315en
local.contributor.lastnameBecken
dc.identifier.staffune-id:wbecken
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local.identifier.unepublicationidune:1560en
dc.identifier.academiclevelAcademicen
local.title.maintitlePlant Remainsen
local.output.categorydescriptionB1 Chapter in a Scholarly Booken
local.relation.urlhttp://www.une.eblib.com.au.ezproxy.une.edu.au/EBLWeb/patron/en
local.relation.urlhttp://books.google.com.au/books?id=jHz3vmIRnhUC&printsec=frontcover#PPA296,M1en
local.search.authorBeck, Wendy Elizabethen
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local.year.published2006en
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