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The tables in Appendix E include the inventory of hand-picked charcoal samples analyzed and their contents. Samples are numbered 1 to 209 in Column A or Row A in rough order by period and locus number. Following those samples are the ones from the floor deposits of the three burned buildings: 210 to 232 (Hellenistic “Abandoned Village,” YHSS 320, 330, 350), 233 to 260 (Early Phrygian Terrace Building 2A, YHSS 610, 620), 261 to 282 (Early Iron Age “BRH”= Burnt Reed House, YHSS 725), 283 to 403...
Appendix E: Charcoal Samples, Inventory of hand-picked charcoal samples, Debris Samples (2010)
The tables in Appendix E include the inventory of hand-picked charcoal samples analyzed and their contents. Samples are numbered 1 to 209 in Column A or Row A in rough order by period and locus number. Following those samples are the ones from the floor deposits of the three burned buildings: 210 to 232 (Hellenistic “Abandoned Village,” YHSS 320, 330, 350), 233 to 260 (Early Phrygian Terrace Building 2A, YHSS 610, 620), 261 to 282 (Early Iron Age “BRH”= Burnt Reed House, YHSS 725), 283 to 403...
Appendix E: Charcoal Samples, Inventory of hand-picked charcoal samples, No Charcoal Samples Analyzed (2010)
The tables in Appendix E include the inventory of hand-picked charcoal samples analyzed and their contents. Samples are numbered 1 to 209 in Column A or Row A in rough order by period and locus number. Following those samples are the ones from the floor deposits of the three burned buildings: 210 to 232 (Hellenistic “Abandoned Village,” YHSS 320, 330, 350), 233 to 260 (Early Phrygian Terrace Building 2A, YHSS 610, 620), 261 to 282 (Early Iron Age “BRH”= Burnt Reed House, YHSS 725), 283 to 403...
Appendix E: Charcoal Samples, Inventory of hand-picked charcoal samples, Poor Provenience (2010)
The tables in Appendix E include the inventory of hand-picked charcoal samples analyzed and their contents. Samples are numbered 1 to 209 in Column A or Row A in rough order by period and locus number. Following those samples are the ones from the floor deposits of the three burned buildings: 210 to 232 (Hellenistic “Abandoned Village,” YHSS 320, 330, 350), 233 to 260 (Early Phrygian Terrace Building 2A, YHSS 610, 620), 261 to 282 (Early Iron Age “BRH”= Burnt Reed House, YHSS 725), 283 to 403...
Appendix F: Data from flotation samples (2010)
The tables in Appendix F include the inventory of flotation samples analyzed and their contents. Samples are numbered 1 to 225 in Column A or Row A in rough order by period and locus number. Following those samples are the ones from the floor deposits of the three burned buildings: 226 to 238 (Early Phrygian Terrace Building 2A, YHSS 620), 239 to 240 (Hellenistic “Abandoned Village,” YHSS 350), 241 to 252 (Early Iron Age “BRH”= Burnt Reed House, YHSS 725), 261 to 687 (other flotation samples...
Archaeobotanical Analysis from the Cane River Site (31Yc91) (2017)
In this paper, we present the results of archaeobotanical analysis from the Cane River Site in Yancey County, NC. Thirty-three samples were collected during the 2013-2014 field season from features associated with different spatial contexts such as household architecture and palisades. Our results show that corn, beans, and squash are ubiquitous in the assemblage, indicating that Cane River has unexpectedly high amounts of domesticates given its higher elevation and lack of lowland floodplains....
Archaeobotanical Data and Site Reports for El Ujuxte and La Blanca, Guatemala Excavations
These are the raw data files associated with the analysis of archaeobotanical remains recovered from excavations of the Middle Formative La Blanca and Late Formative El Ujuxte, Guatemala. Aside from the raw botanical data, these files include the 1996,1997, and 2000 informes from El Ujuxte and the 2005 and 2008 informes from La Blanca.
Archaeobotanical Evidence and Diachronic Changes in Foodways of Indigenous Groups in the Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Regions, California (2015)
The Central Coast and San Francisco Bay regions of California are areas of high climatic, ecological, and indigenous cultural heterogeneity. During the last two decades, archaeobotanical research in these regions has begun to document the contributions of botanical resources in indigenous foodways systems through time. In the San Francisco Bay Area, a large number of anthropogenic shell mounds were population aggregation sites used for thousands of years, and, for the period after ca. 1050 CE,...
Archaeobotany in Southeast Asia: What have we learned so far (2015)
Archaeobotany as a specialisation in Southeast Asia began in the late 1960s. Archaeobotanical methods (e.g. flotation, phytolith and pollen sampling) are still not routinely used in archaeological fieldwork in SEA, although in the past ten years, archaeobotany has gained momentum. For example, several sites in Thailand (Ban Non Wat, Khao Sam Kaeo, Khao Sek, Non Ban Jak, Phu Khao Thong), Vietnam (Lo Gach, Loch Giang, Rach Nui) and Cambodia (Ta Phrom) have included archaeobotanical analyses as...
Archaeobotany of Ka'ūpūlehu (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thousands of charcoal specimens from 23 traditional Hawaiian sites throughout Ka’ūpūlehu Ahupua’a in north Kona were analyzed to see how kama’aina (“people of the land”) interacted with their environment. Fifty-one plant taxa, including 36 plants of Hawaiian origin and six Polynesian introductions, were identified. Combining charcoal identification and...
The Archaeobotany of Kelley Cave (41VV164): A Glimpse of Prehistoric Plant Use in the Lower Pecos Region of Texas (2015)
Sheltered sites in the Lower Pecos region of Texas are renowned for their spectacular plant preservation. Recent excavations in Kelley Cave (41VV164) in Eagle Nest Canyon yielded abundant well-preserved plant remains within Feature 4, a large pit thought to represent an earth oven facility with a complex history of use and abandonment. Most of the plant materials from Feature 4 probably represent the accumulation of waste products of plant foods prepared in other nearby earth ovens, intermingled...
The archaeobotany of plant microfossils in South Asia - History and Perspectives (2017)
The analysis of plant microfossils has progressed immensely in recent years. The increase in the number of phytoliths and starch grains works in several disciplines has substantially extended our knowledge about these microfossils, while at the same time diversifying the approaches by which they can be used as archaeological and palaeoenvironmental proxies. This presentation will discuss the history and developments of plant microfossils in South Asia.
The Archaeobotany of Ritual: The Role of Palm (Arecaceae) in Ancient Maya Caves (2017)
The past several decades of research have identified caves as important loci for Precolumbian and historic Maya ritual activity. To the ancient Maya, caves served as portals to the underworld, functioning as sites where ritual practitioners could be in closer contact with important deities and enact rites associated with natural forces. The Belize River Valley has been a significant area for cave exploration and excavation, and Stela Cave in particular, located in the Cayo District in western...
Archaeological survey of mound sites in Southwestern Shandong, China: Plants and people (2017)
The surveyed area, Heze city of southwestern Shandong, China is located at the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Most archaeological sites in this region were deeply buried, from 3m to more than 10m. Very few archaeological works especially excavations had been taken due to the depth. Our survey of 2012-2015 revealed that these sites had been continuously occupied for a long history. The occupation started from Beixin culture (c. 5000 -4100 BC), continued to Dawenkou culture (c. 4150-2650 BC),...
As the ancestors were laid to rest: preliminary results from the archaeobotanical analysis of burial soils from the Yukisma Site (CA-SCL-38) (2016)
This paper will be presenting the preliminary results of analyses of archaeological soils collected from within burial contexts at the Yukisma Site between 1993 and 1994. The Yukisma Site is a mounded cemetery site located in what is now Milpitas California, and was used as a burial ground from AD 540-1687. This cemetery was disturbed by construction in 1993. Over 243 individuals were recovered, and later reburied by the Muwekma Ohlone Indian Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area. While the...
Behind the Walls and Beneath the Floors: Botanical Remains from a 19th-Century Kitchen House in Charleston, South Carolina (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The two-story brick kitchen house at 51 Meeting Street in downtown Charleston was a central place of activity for enslaved peoples held in bondage on the Russell/Allston property from 1808 to 1864. On the first floor of the structure, they carried out cooking and laundry tasks for themselves and for the main...
Beyond Seeds and Charcoal: Constructing a Past for the Future (2015)
The "big issue" of my career has been long-term human impact on the environment, an inherently processual concern. Working on ancient west Asian plant remains, ethnographic analogy and modern vegetation analogs helped me explain how the the demand for energy lead to deforestation and increasing dung fuel use, both of which are traceable through archaeobotanical study. Seeds preserved in dung fuel, in turn, allow us to identify agropastoral practices that created new environmental niches for...
Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey
The archaeological site of Gordion is most famous as the home of the Phrygian king Midas and as the place where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot on his way to conquer Asia. Located in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey) near the confluence of the Porsuk and Sakarya rivers, Gordion also lies on historic trade routes between east and west as well as north to the Black Sea. Favorably situated for long-distance trade, Gordion's setting is marginal for agricultural cultivation but well...
Botanical Aspects of Environment and Economy at Gordion, Turkey (2010)
The archaeological site of Gordion is most famous as the home of the Phrygian king Midas and as the place where Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot on his way to conquer Asia. Located in central Anatolia (present-day Turkey) near the confluence of the Porsuk and Sakarya rivers, Gordion also lies on historic trade routes between east and west as well as north to the Black Sea. Favorably situated for long-distance trade, Gordion's setting is marginal for agricultural cultivation but well...
Botanical Material from Jamestown: A New Survey (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Funded by the Surrey-Skiffes Creek Conservation and Curation project, Jamestown Rediscovery has undertaken an ambitious plan to better conserve, curate, and analyze botanical material from the past 25 years of excavation. Material from waterlogged contexts is of special interest, particularly to address...
Carbonized seeds in a protohistorian house: results of Herat and house experiments (2004)
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Cereals and agricultural risk management in northern Sudan, past and present (2016)
Nubian agricultural practices are rapidly altering due to infrastructure development, as well as technological and environmental changes. We have been interviewing Nubian farmers about crop choices, land-use and irrigation. Farmer interviews have focused on a car- and electricity-free Nile island, Ernetta, where many 'traditional' practices have continued for a comparatively long time. We are also interviewing farmers in other villages throughout the north to understand variability. This...
Collaboration and Indigenous Archaeology at Maluaka on the Big Island of Hawai’i (2016)
A collaborative archaeological project on the Big Island of Hawaii involves excavation and intensive water flotation to recover plant remains at Maluaka, a ten acre parcel of the North Kona agricultural field system above Keauhou traditionally known as the Kuahewa. The work is conducted in collaboration with Kamehameha Schools, a private charitable educational trust endowed by the will of Hawaiian Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop (1831-1884). The project involves linkages with elementary,...
Commodities and Curiosities: Colonial Botany at Jamestown (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Opening the Vault: What Collections Can Say About Jamestown’s Global Trade Network", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Plants played an integral role in the colonization of North America. When colonists and investors realized that gold and other precious metals would not be viable for export, they turned their attention to other natural resources. It was in plants that the colonists found the answers to...
Common Meals, Noble Feasts: An Archaeological Investigation of Moche Food and Cuisine in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru (2016)
In the North Coast of Peru, relatively little is known about the majority of the population that supported the lifestyles of the elite. In this paper, I discuss the concept of a Moche cuisine through a study of the foodways of both elite and commoner classes, drawing on archaeobotanical data from a feasting preparation area located in the elite cemetery of San José de Moro and from a humble household situated near the base of the fortified hilltop settlement of Cerro Chepén. Cuisine can be...