Differentiating Aspen and Cottonwood in Prehistoric Wood from Chacoan Great Houses (Pamphlet)

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Authors: Tennessen, David; Blanchette, Robert A.; and Windes, Thomas C.

Publisher: Journal of Archaeological Science

Pub Date: 2002

Binding: Paperback

Condition: 4 copies.  All copies Fair.  Stapled binding tight.  No marks, tears, folds.  All copies have slight wear to their corners and edges.

Notes: Pamphlet.  Offprint.  Originally published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 29.  Description of a method of distinguishing aspen wood from cottonwood.  “Differentiating  aspen from cottonwood in samples of wood from Anasazi great houses could provide valuable information about environmental change and shifts in socio-economic strategies related to wood harvesting and construction.  Aztec Ruins, a cluster of Chacoan great houses built in the early AD 1100s, has one of the largest samples of prehistoric wood left of any site in the American Southwest.”  (Page 522)