Archaeobotany/Paleoethnobotany (Other Keyword)

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Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at  Ancient Gordion
PROJECT Uploaded by: Page Selinsky

This book publishes the results of 220 botanical samples from the 1993–2002 Gordion excavations directed by Mary Voigt. Together with Naomi Miller’s 2010 volume (Gordion Special Studies 5), this book completes the publication of botanical samples from Voigt’s excavations. The book aims to reconstruct agricultural decision making using archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from Gordion to describe environmental and agricultural changes at the site. Different political and economic systems...


Experimental Study of Lentil Taphonomy in Gangetic Early Farming Period to Understand Culinary Practices (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Pangyu Kim. Jennifer Bates. Vikas Kumar Singh. Ravindra Nath Singh.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological studies can uncover various foods associated with different cultures, where species selection holds ecological importance and preparation/consumption bear cultural significance. Regrettably, there is a shortage of research on food-related behaviors. This is especially true in the India Gangetic Early to...


Food from the Hinterlands: Integrated Faunal and Archaeobotanical Studies at a Classical Emporion, Thrace (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Chantel White. Demetri Brellas. Nathan Arrington.

The movement of goods, information, and people across the Classical world has been a subject of intense archaeological investigation for over a century. Established trading outposts, known as Greek emporia, contained a multitude of cultural elements from indigenous communities, Classical Greece, the eastern Aegean, and beyond. The ongoing excavation of a coastal site in northern Greece as part of the Molyvoti Thrace Archaeological Project has revealed a Classical Greek settlement dating to the...


Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past...


Online Appendix 1: Sample-by-Sample Charcoal Identifcations (2017)
DATASET John M. Marston.

A sample-by-sample reporting of charcoal identifications to accompany the book: Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. NOTE: Due to file formatting, please download the original datafile rather than the translated version.


Online Appendix 2: Sample-by-Sample Flotation Samples (2017)
DATASET John M. Marston.

A sample-by-sample reporting of flotation samples to accompany the book: Agricultural Sustainability and Environmental Change at Ancient Gordion. NOTE: Due to file formatting, please download the original datafile rather than the translated version.


Paleoethnobotany Studies from Archaeological Investigations in the Salado Draw Watershed, Lea County, New Mexico (2023)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Samuel Cason.

This paleoethnobotanical study is a component of an undertaking titled Salado Draw Archaeological Survey, Small-Scale Excavation, and Geomorphological Characterization, GSA Contract No. GS-10F-0396P. The work was commissioned by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) as part of research to be carried out under the Permian Basin Programmatic Agreement, Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) No. 11, Contract No. L14PA00010. It addresses Task 10 (a paleoethnobotany research...