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Human Modification of the Landscape

• HF-ID: HF2004-15
• Category: Research Files
• Creator:
  • Tuross, Noreen

• Associated Person:
  • Makarewicz, Cheryl
  • Wright, Joshua

• Date: September 2003
• Location: Prospect Hill Tract (Harvard Forest)
• Media: Paper and CD
• Contents:
  • CD of posters, class notes, maps, diagrams, Harvard Crimson article. 1 file folder. 8.5 inches x 11 inches.

• Keywords: land use history, paleoecology
• Abstract:
  • Noreen Tuross, a professor in Harvard's Anthropology Department, ran a course at Harvard Forest in 2004, titled "Human Modification of the Landscape." The class emphasized methods of inferring past human activity using phosphorus analysis and other techniques.
  
  
  • In 2008, Tuross brought other classes (AN1140, AN2045) to Harvard Forest. Soil cores were taken from the Pierce farm, the Community House pasture, the tannery and the Bryant farm. A map of the Pierce farm was created.

• Archives Location: Middle Room, stack 13, drawer 5
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