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Wilhelm
From the Conclusions ... 'Prior to becoming a national park, Shenandoah had gone through periods of indiscriminate logging, hunting, livestock grazing, and burning. Then the area entered the National Park System and shifted abruptly to a regime of…
Type: Document
Year: 1973
Koeppen
From the text ... 'Charcoal is largely unaffected by fungi or other woods destroying organisms. Consequently, it will persist in soil for great periods of time and often turns up in archaeological diggings and paleobotanical studies. The…
Type: Document
Year: 1972
Ferguson
[From first paragraph] Dendrochronology may be defined as the study of the chronological sequence of annual growth rings in trees. The concepts and techniques of the science, as presented here, reflect the work and practice of the Laboratory of Tree…
Type: Document
Year: 1970
Galinat, Ruppe
Another large and significant collection of prehistoric maize cobs (Zea Mays L.) with Tripsacoid characteristics that are indicative of introgression from either Tripsacum spp. or its maize derivative, teosinte (Zea mexicana Reeves and Mangelsdorf…
Type: Document
Year: 1961
Heusser
[from the text] The science of palynology has come a long way since the presentation of the first paper on modern pollen analysis by Lennart von Post at Oslo in 1916. Like many sciences it was initiated as a rather narrow discipline and consisted…
Type: Document
Year: 1960
Mangelsdorf, MacNeish, Galinat
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Type: Document
Year: 1956
Mangelsdorf, Lister
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Type: Document
Year: 1956
Galinat, Mangelsdorf, Pierson
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Type: Document
Year: 1956
Mangelsdorf, Smith
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Type: Document
Year: 1949
Wells
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Type: Document
Year: 1938