New Avenues in the Study of Plant Remains from Historical Sites
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2022
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in 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.
This symposium highlights the contributions of scholars whose research incorporates the study of plant remains from historical contexts, both terrestrial and underwater. In recent years, historical archaeology has increasingly benefited from the analysis of botanical evidence to explore themes including managed and cultivated landscapes, culinary practices, movements of people and their plant knowledge, and the social archaeology of food. The papers in this symposium explore these recent developments in the study of human-plant interactions through a variety of different approaches and analytical techniques (including the study of macrobotanical remains, phytoliths, and pollen). These papers demonstrate the enduring value of botanical study within archaeology as it is applied in archaeological excavations, collections-based research, and interdisciplinary collaborations.
Other Keywords
archaeobotany •
Colonialism •
Agriculture •
Paleoethnobotany •
Foodways •
Phytoliths •
Plants •
Cuisine •
Macrobotanical •
Remote Sensing
Geographic Keywords
MIDDLE ATLANTIC •
New England •
US Southwest •
Eastern North America •
American Southwest •
American Southeast •
Chesapeake •
Eastern United States •
INDIA •
Western North America
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-19 of 19)
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Behind the Walls and Beneath the Floors: Botanical Remains from a 19th-Century Kitchen House in Charleston, South Carolina (2022)