GH11B:
Learning from Our Ancestors: Using Modern Earth Science Methods to Understand Ancient Practices Posters


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Session ID#: 52386

Session Description:
Ancient societies interacted with their natural environments in many ways.  Taking the waters, imbuing certain stones with special powers, and even ingesting soils for improved health are practices that can be found around the world.  Modern earth science allows us to study these practices in greater detail in order to understand their origins and evaluate their efficacy.  Modern earth science methods also make it possible for us to understand how ancient societies interacted with the landscape in order to ensure a constant supply of food and water, to secure shelter and protection and to obtain raw materials needed to make tools and wage war.  This session welcomes all contributions that allow us to use earth science to understand and learn from the practices of our ancestors.
Primary Convener:  Kenneth L Verosub, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States; Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Convener:  Irina Delusina, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kenneth L Verosub, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States; University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Chairs:  Kenneth L Verosub, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States and Irina Delusina, Univ. of California, Davis, Davis, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Kenneth L Verosub, Univ California Davis, Davis, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • EP - Earth and Planetary Surface Processes
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
  • MR - Mineral and Rock Physics
Index Terms:

0205 Archaeological geology [GEOHEALTH]
0220 Geomedicine [GEOHEALTH]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1884 Water supply [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Antibacterial clays: From ancient uses to modern medicine (350617)
Lynda B Williams1, Dennis D. Eberl2, Sandra Carolina Londoño3, Keith D. Morrison4, Suzannah M. Schmidt-Malan5, Katherine M. Caflisch5 and Robin Patel5, (1)Arizona State University, School of Earth & Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)U.S. Geological Survery, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Chandler Community College, Chandler, AZ, United States, (4)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, United States, (5)Mayo Clinic, Division of Infectious Diseases, Rochester, MN, United States
Chloritized rocks associated with serpentinite from the Kamuikotan Tectonic Belt, North Japan; implications for source and manufacturing of the beads and stone tools from the Paleolithic - Jomon period (377595)
Satoshi Okamura, Hokkaido Soil Research Co-operation, Sapporo, Japan; Hokkaido Education Univ, Sapporo, Japan, Aki Tomioka, Sapporo Kashiwagaoka Junior High School, Sapporo, Japan, Takayuki Katoh, Earth Science Co. Ltd., Sapporo, Japan, Satoru Tatsuda, Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center, Sapporo, Japan, Toyoto Azuma, Hidaka Mountains Museum, Hidaka, Japan and Toshiki Sakai, No Affiliation, Sapporo, Japan
Hydrological characterization of pre-Inca water harvesting practices using high-resolution monitoring (462529)
Boris F Ochoa-Tocachi1, Javier Antiporta2, Mario Aguirre2, Gena Gammie3, Bert De Bièvre4, Wouter Buytaert5 and Regional Initiative for Hydrological Monitoring of Andean Ecosystems (iMHEA), (1)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, United Kingdom, (2)CONDESAN Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion, Lima, Peru, (3)Forest Trends, Water Initiative, Washington DC, United States, (4)Fondo para la Protección del Agua - FONAG, Secretaría Técnica, Quito, Ecuador, (5)Imperial College London, Civil and Environmental Engineering & Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the Environment, London, SW7, United Kingdom
Providing a Scientific Basis for the Use of a Healing Clay Among the Uitoto of the Colombian Amazon (426198)
Sandra Carolina Londono, Chandler Gilbert Community College, Chandler, AZ, United States and Lynda B Williams, Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ, United States
Transdisciplinary approaches to ancient human health and environmental interactions: New insights from the California Channel Islands (416526)
Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Anthropology, Washington, DC, United States, Kevin N Smith, University of California Davis, Anthropology, Davis, CA, United States and Sebastian K. T. S. Wärmländer, Stockholm University, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm, Sweden

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