Dorothy E. Freidel
Sonoma State University
4 Papers
Dorothy E. Freidel is an academic researcher from Sonoma State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Holocene. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 4 publications.
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Climate change and population history in the pacific lowlands of Southern Mesoamerica
TL;DR: The core MAN015 from Pacific coastal Guatemala contains sediments accumulated in a mangrove setting over the past 6500 yr Chemical, pollen, and phytolith data, which indicate conditions of estuarine deposition and terrigenous inputs from adjacent dry land, document Holocene climate variability that parallels the Maya lowlands and other New World tropical locations as discussed by the authors.
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Post-Mazama River Terraces and Human Occupation Along the North Umpqua River Oregon
Dorothy E. Freidel,Brian O'Neill +1 more
- 01 Jan 2014
TL;DR: A sequence of three post-Mazama terraces, found at intervals along the banks of the North Umpqua River, western Oregon, contains evidence of middle and late Holocene human occupation that has contributed to a construction of a geomorphic history of terrace formation as discussed by the authors.
Early Maya Adaptive Patterns: Mid-Late Holocene Paleoenvironmental Evidence from Pacific Guatemala
Hector Neff,Deborah M. Pearsall,John G. Jones,Barbara Arroyo,Shawn K. Collins,Dorothy E. Freidel +5 more
TL;DR: The authors presented new paleoenvironmental evidence of pre-Early Formative human impacts on the landscape of Pacific coastal Guatemala using sediment cores in three locations, all of which are in the mangrove-estuary zone of the lower coast.