From Plant Remains to Talk about Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction and the Use of Plant: A Case Study at the Shiqiao Site, Niao-sung Culture
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Peng, Jia-Hong
Abstract
A lot of archaeological materials have been studied in Taiwan Archaeology, but only a small part research about plant remains. In recent years, scholars try to study plant remains, micro-remains especially. Therefore, pollen, spore, phytoliths and plant remains will be studied in this thesis. Using these materials to reconstruct the environment and understand the use of plant at the Shiqiao Site (石橋遺址), Niao-sung Culture (蔦松文化).
According to the research about the geography and the geology, the Shiqiao Site was a plain and the old Zenwen River (?)(曾文溪) also had once channel change. In this period (1,800 B.P.-1,300 B.P.), the Shiqiao Site was impacted by the Zenwen River, rather than the coast. Following the research about the pollen analysis, the phytolith analysis, and the plant remains in this thesis, there had a source of water near the site.
As the scarcity of pollen, reconstruct the paleoenvironment of the Shiqiao Site is very hard. Following the result of the analyses in this thesis, rice, job’s tear, and cordia were for eating. Rice and job’s tear were gathered the tassels. Bamboo also be gathered, and the function of bamboo was weapons or hunting equipments. Awn grown here or be gathered, and its function as fuel. Bamboo and awn also can be the building materials, but need the future research about the architecture in the Shiqiao Site. Millet is very special in the Southern Taiwan Science Park (台南科學園區), because it just can be found in the Nanke elementary school Site (南科國小遺址). The reason needs the future research to answer.
Subjects
Phytolith
Pollen Analysis
Plant Remains
the Use of Plant
Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction
the Shiqiao Site
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