2009
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.09.013
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An integrated assessment of archaeobotanical recovery methods in the Neotropical rainforest of northern Belize: flotation and dry screening

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“…To recover the full range of taxa, both large and small, one should opt for water flotation, even in sandy sediments. Hageman and Goldstein (2009) reach similar conclusions from their comparative study in Belize, where flotation in silt-clay conditions yielded more seeds, while only large wood samples were found using the sieving procedure. For dried food plants in sandy sediments, particularly maize, beans, peppers, large taxa, and feast foods, dry sieving may be preferred.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 83%
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“…To recover the full range of taxa, both large and small, one should opt for water flotation, even in sandy sediments. Hageman and Goldstein (2009) reach similar conclusions from their comparative study in Belize, where flotation in silt-clay conditions yielded more seeds, while only large wood samples were found using the sieving procedure. For dried food plants in sandy sediments, particularly maize, beans, peppers, large taxa, and feast foods, dry sieving may be preferred.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 83%
“…The fact that flotation accounts for the better recovery of small seeds could be attributed to the fact that sieved samples appear less ''clean'' and tend to be more dusty in nature, making it more difficult for the sorter to distinguish between seeds and dirt. Clearly, more experiments such as this and Hageman and Goldstein's (2009) work in Belize are needed to clarify the differences in recovery rates among various processing methods. Perhaps a technique involving both flotation and dry sieving could be utilized to get the best of both worlds.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Significant numbers of carbonized nutshells, seeds of manzanita and manroot, and even corms/bulbs are present in many of these dry-screened samples. We find precedent for this dual-collection strategy in various regions with good preservation (Chiou et al 2013;Hageman and Goldstein 2009). The loci represented here are shell-rich, sandy-soil, toss-zone areas outside defined house depressions.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 75%
“…As flotation has been suggested to be less effective at recovering denser macrofossils, especially endocarp fragments 41 , both the lighter fraction, or 'flot', and the heavy residue from these contexts were analysed. All charred fragments >1 mm from both fractions were analysed.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%