Identifying Cultural and Non-cultural Factors Affecting Litter Patterns in Hickory Creek, Texas
Description:
Plastic deposition in hydrological systems is a pervasive problem at all geographic scales from loci of pollution to global ocean circulation. Much attention has been devoted to plastic deposition in marine contexts, but little is known about inputs of plastics into local hydrological systems, such as streams. Any attempt to prevent plastic litter must confront people’s behaviors, so archaeological concepts are used to distinguish between various cultural inputs (e.g., littering) and non-cultur…
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Date:
August 2014
Creator:
Carpenter, Evan S.