Fwd from a message posted to HISTARCH:

> New Archeobotanical Website Available
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> The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory, located at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, Maryland's State Museum of Archaeology, announces a webpage and database devoted to the climate-induced environmental changes that have occurred in the Chesapeake Bay region over the last 20,000 years. This project uses botanical data available from Maryland archaeological evidence to track how plant communities have evolved and changed over this time period. Working with lab staff, archaeobotanist Justine McKnight and Dr. Martin Gallivan, archaeologist and professor of Anthropology at the College of William and Mary, created a database of microscopic pollen, phytoliths, seeds, nuts, and other charred plant remains from 90 archaeological sites spanning 12,000 years of Maryland history. The new webpage has a searchable online database of paleobotanical data from Maryland archaeological sites, descriptions of the 90 sites and a summary of environmental change in a narrative f!
> orm on the JPPM webpage. This research tool will be of great use to scholars trying to develop a context for interpreting the plant remains found on newly-excavated archaeological sites, and will also be invaluable to researchers interested in environmental changes. The site, Maryland Archeobotany, can be accessed at http://www.jefpat.org/archeobotany/Home.aspx. Please contact lab director Patricia Samford at psamford@mdp.state.md.us for more information.
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> Patricia Samford
> Director, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory
> 10515 Mackall Road
> St. Leonard, Maryland 20685
> 410-586-8551