Landscape Lines 7: Pollen, Phytolith, and Macroflora Analyses
Landscape Lines 7: Pollen, Phytolith, and Macroflora Analyses. Cultural Landscape Guidance Documents. Landscape Lines 7. National Park Service, Park Cultural Landscapes Program. Washington, D.C.
A guide to Pollen, Phytolith, and Macroflora Analyses, part of the Landscape Lines series from the Park Cultural Landscapes Program. Pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral analyses are archeological techniques used to investigate the prehistory and history of vegetation types within a landscape. These methods yield information about former land use and changes in cultural activities over time. Archeological and ethnobotanical expertise is required to analyze pollen, phytoliths, and macroflora. The potential for these analyses to provide data about vegetation is highest when a site is undisturbed. Information about the site is also enhanced when the three techniques are conducted together. They can each be used to complement other archeological techniques. This guidance document introduces these methods of analysis, including each technique and its application to cultural landscape research.
- Type
- Published Report
- Publisher
- National Park Service, Park Cultural Landscapes Program
- Units
- CRPS
- Keywords
- Archeology, CRSS, Ethnobotany, excavation, historic land use, Historic Vegetation, prehistoric vegetation, Soil Sample