The Curious Douglas-Fir ( Pseudotsuga Menziesii ) Trees in Schulman Grove, Mesa Verde National Park, Southwestern Colorado, USA
The Curious Douglas-Fir ( Pseudotsuga Menziesii ) Trees in Schulman Grove, Mesa Verde National Park, Southwestern Colorado, USA
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美国科罗拉多州西南部梅萨维德国家公园舒尔曼格罗夫的奇异花旗松 (Pseudotsuga Menziesii) 树
DOI：
10.1017/aaq.2021.4
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.8
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Dean, Jeffrey S.
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作者：
Nash, Stephen E.;Towner, Ronald H.;Dean, Jeffrey S.
1954年，考古学家詹姆斯·艾伦·兰开斯特、唐·沃森和树木年代学家埃德蒙·舒尔曼断言，在梅萨维德国家公园查平梅萨西侧的纳瓦霍峡谷，有一小片道格拉斯冷杉（Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirbel] Franco var. glauca [Beissener] Franco）树的小树林里，有石斧砍断树枝的证据。1965年，考古学家罗伯特·尼科尔斯（Robert Nichols）和大卫·史密斯（David Smith）发表了一篇名为《梅萨维德（Mesa Verde）史前种植道格拉斯冷杉的证据》的文章，在文章中，他们用疑似石斧切割的树枝的年轮日期支持了兰开斯特/沃森/舒尔曼的断言。如果正确的话，尼科尔斯和史密斯（1965）记录了整个美国西南部唯一的树木，其中包含古代石斧切割的残根和前哥伦布时期森林管理的证据。我们并没有从表面上接受他们的解释，而是试图通过（重新）分析存档和最近收集的树木年轮样本，并通过对存档和已发表记录的对照分析和比较，来复制他们的日期。我们无法证实他们的结果，我们别无选择，只能拒绝他们的说法，即舒尔曼格罗夫包含梅萨维德的普韦布洛人祖先操纵前哥伦布时期树木的证据。
In 1954, archaeologists James Allen Lancaster and Don Watson and dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman asserted that a small grove of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirbel] Franco var. glauca [Beissener] Franco) trees in Navajo Canyon on the west side of Chapin Mesa in Mesa Verde National Park contained evidence of stone-axe-cut tree limbs. In 1965, archaeologists Robert Nichols and David Smith published an article entitled “Evidence of Prehistoric Cultivation of Douglas-Fir Trees at Mesa Verde,” in which they supported the Lancaster/Watson/Schulman assertion with tree-ring dates from suspected stone-axe-cut limbs. If correct, Nichols and Smith (1965) document the only trees in the entire U.S. Southwest that contain ancient stone-axe-cut stubs and evidence of precolumbian forest management. Rather than accept their interpretations at face value, we attempt to replicate their dates through the (re)analysis of archived and recently collected tree-ring samples, and through a controlled analysis and comparison of archived and published records. We could not confirm their results, and we have no option but to reject their claim that Schulman Grove contains evidence of precolumbian tree manipulation by Ancestral Puebloan inhabitants of Mesa Verde.