The Evolution of Intensive Plant Use by Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeobotanical Records from California
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)
Subsistence systems in California have been greatly elucidated in the past two decades through study of the continually expanding archaeobotanical record. This symposium presents recent research by scholars working in coastal, island and inland settings of California. The California archaeobotanical record offers insights into the evolution of intensive and sedentary hunter-gatherers who maximized their use of a well-endowed but highly varied environment. The breadth of papers will demonstrate the range of research issues that have been addressed using California archaeobotanical data, and what this record can offer to archaeological problems elsewhere in similar contexts.
Other Keywords
Paleoethnobotany •
archaeobotany •
intensification •
Foraging Behavior •
Chenopodium •
Specialization •
Santa Barbara Channel •
California •
Starch •
Ground Stone
Geographic Keywords
North America - California
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-8 of 8)
- Documents (8)
- Ancient Starch Research In California: Results from CA-SBA-53 (2015)
- Archaeobotanical Evidence and Diachronic Changes in Foodways of Indigenous Groups in the Central Coast and San Francisco Bay Regions, California (2015)
- Changes Palates and Resources: Modeling Diachronic Plant Use in Prehistoric California (2015)
- Environmental Constraints and Plant Food Intensification in the Sacramento Valley (2015)
- Evidence of Specialization and Intensification of Small Seed Exploitation on Santa Cruz Island, California (2015)
- Native Irrigation in Owens Valley: The 2000 Year Back-story (2015)
- Plant Remains Assemblage in Santa Clara Valley (2015)
- Plant use at Diablo Valdez, Santa Cruz Island: Evidence from macrobotanical and starch grain remains (2015)