Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography
Abstract
THESIS 7702Multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental data in the form of microfossil pollen, fungal spores,
phytoliths and charcoal have provided a means of reconstructing the mid to late
Holocene environmental history of the Munsa archaeological site, Uganda. The
palaeoenvironmental data are discussed within a chronological framework provided by
fifteen AMS 14C dates; eleven of the dates are for plant macrofossils, while the other
four are for bulk sediment samples.. The data were extracted from sedim ent cores
obtained from Munsa II, which is today a papyrus-dominated swamp, located within an
area described by earthworks that form part of the archaeological site at Munsa