scholarly journals IV - On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales

1937 ◽  
Vol 227 (544) ◽  
pp. 245-291 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
England And Wales ◽  
Red Sandstone ◽  
Extended Sense ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
History Of

The strata from which the plant-remains to be described in this paper are derived are those which are grouped as Downtonian in the extended sense of this term employed by Mr. W. Wickham King. They therefore include not only the Ludlow Bone-bed, the Downton Sandstone, and the Temeside Shales, i.e ., the Grey Downtonian, but a much greater thickness of red marls and sandstones that were formerly classed with the Lower Old Red Sandstone, but are now spoken of as the Red Downtonian. This way of regarding the rocks of this horizon has been fully discussed in the light of the history of opinions by O. T. Jones (1929, pp. 110- 121) and need not be considered further here. These strata have been included at different times in the Silurian or in the Old Red Sandstone. It is not necessary here to enter into the question as to the best limit between the Silurian and the Devonian. Reference may be made to Stamp (1923), O. T. Jones (1929), and to Wickham King’s recent paper (1934). It is sufficient for the purposes of this study of the plants to recognize that the Downtonian strata come above the more definitely marine Ludlovian rocks and below the more definitely continental beds of the Lower Old Red Sandstone. The transitional nature of the Grey Downtonian has long been accepted and can readily be extended to the succeeding beds included in the Downtonian by Wickham King.

Gendered Places and Depositional Histories: Reconstructing a Menstrual Lodge in the Interior Northwest

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Molly Carney ◽  
Jade d'Alpoim Guedes ◽  
Kevin J. Lyons ◽  
Melissa Goodman Elgar
Keyword(s):  
Low Temperature ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Thin Section ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Columbia Plateau ◽  
The North ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
History Of ◽  
Experimental Firing ◽  
River Inundation

This project considered the deposition history of a burned structure located on the Kalispel Tribe of Indians ancestral lands at the Flying Goose site in northeastern Washington. Excavation of the structure revealed stratified deposits that do not conform to established Columbia Plateau architectural types. The small size, location, and absence of artifacts lead us to hypothesize that this site was once a non-domestic structure. We tested this hypothesis with paleoethnobotanical, bulk geoarchaeological, thin section, and experimental firing data to deduce the structural remains and the post-occupation sequence. The structure burned at a relatively low temperature, was buried soon afterward with imported rubified sediment, and was exposed to seasonal river inundation. Subsequently, a second fire consumed a unique assemblage of plant remains. Drawing on recent approaches to structured deposition and historic processes, we incorporate ethnography to argue that this structure was a menstrual lodge. These structures are common in ethnographic descriptions, although no menstrual lodges have been positively identified in the archaeological record of the North American Pacific Northwest. This interpretation is important to understanding the development and time depth of gendered practices of Interior Northwest groups.

The contribution of archaeological plant remains in tracing the cultural history of Mediterranean trees: The example of the Roman harbour ofNeapolis

The Holocene ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 603-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Allevato ◽  
Antonio Saracino ◽  
Silvio Fici ◽  
Gaetano Di Pasquale
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
History Of

The effective practice of staff development in England and Wales: learning from history and contemporary research

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Staff Development ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Effective Practice ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Refresher Training ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recorded Performance ◽  
Staff Skills ◽  
Learning From History

This chapter endeavours to construct a history of staff development in probation through a critical assessment of past models. It draws on the lessons of that history to argue that the effectiveness of practice provides potentially useful ideas about how the improvement of staff skills can be achieved. Among other things, these include focussed training, rehearsal, observation and feedback on either live or recorded performance, refresher training and expert tutoring

XXVIII.—The Plant Remains in the Scottish Peat Mosses

1906 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-723 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis J. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Field Work ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Early Autumn ◽  
Peat Deposits ◽  
Plant Remains ◽  
History Of

The following paper deals with an investigation of the successive zones of plant remains contained in the deeper peat deposits covering areas in the Scottish Southern Uplands. The field work was carried on during the summer and early autumn of 1904, and the detailed examination of the peat in the laboratory during part of the winter. No attempt has been made to work out the detailed flora of the different zones, but attention has chiefly been directed to the dominant plant remains found at different horizons in the mosses. Whilst the list of plants from each zone is small, the general facies of the flora of any layer can be gauged from the abundant presence of a few characteristic plants such as Salix reticulata and Empetrum, or Sphagnum and Eriophorum. Thus, while the investigation is incomplete as regards any addition to the history of the British Flora, it will, I hope, throw some light upon the succession of vegetation over the older peat mosses since their origin.

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