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- All Subjects: Fossil, Pollen Identification
- All Subjects: Mestizos America History
- Creators: Schoenwetter, James
Popular version of Bethsaida pollen research prepared for "Discovering Archaeology" prior to the date that journal ceased publication. Rejected by "Biblical Archaeology."
Abstract of paper presented to the American Ethnological Society, 1961. Subsequently published in the "Journal of East Asian Studies." Vol. 8, No. 1, p. 15-20.
Discusses local vegetation patterns, modern pollen/vegetation relationships, pollen sequence and chronology for the site, correspondence of ceramic-dated pollen horizons at this site with those elsewhere in the SW, cultural ecological implications of the pollen record, and plant resource availability during prehistoric occupation.
Study of 97 pollen samples suggests that pollen occurs in sufficient quantity for analysis, that economic pollen types occur, and that pollen sequences indicate paleoenvironmental changes over time. An extraction technique for recovering sufficient pollen for analysis is described for samples dominated by coral sand particles. 29 pollen taxa were recognized in the analysis of a series of samples from a Futuna Island rockshelter.