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Core and Column Sampling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard W. Casteel
Richard W. Casteel*
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Department of Anthropology University of California, Davis
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Abstract

Cores recovered from a soil auger were found to yield accurate information about the depth of midden deposit and to compare favorably with column samples as a means of recovering midden material for microanalysis.

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American Antiquity , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , October 1970 , pp. 465 - 467
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1970

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