Archaeology Brown Bag Lecture Series

The history of ecosystems is recorded in sediment basins, which collect whatever lands there. The spatial provenance of paleoecological records varies with the sedimentary environment and the properties of the remains--larger lakes accumulate airborne particles from larger areas, and heavier items have more local provenance. Many research questions depend on the spatial resolution of information about history, but most paleoecological data are spatially vague. We will consider evidence of the...