Integrated Foodways Research (Other Keyword)

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Foraging Ancient Landscapes: Seasonal and Spatial Variation in Prehistoric Exploitation of Plant and Animal Food Resources on Santa Cruz Island, California (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Thakar.

In recent years, burgeoning paleoethnobotanical research on the Northern Channel Islands of California has challenged long held assumptions regarding the nature of aboriginal patterns of plant exploitation and helped refine our understanding of prehistoric Chumash subsistence economies. Yet, little effort has been made to systematically integrate paleoethnobotanical analysis and datasets with normative subsistence studies, which tend to focus on the abundant (and highly visible) shellfish...