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

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  1. Behind the Walls and Beneath the Floors: Botanical Remains from a 19th-Century Kitchen House in Charleston, South Carolina (2022)
  2. Botanical Material from Jamestown: A New Survey (2022)
  3. Caring for Living Plants on Sailing Ships in Captain William Bligh’s Late 18th-Century Breadfruit Expeditions (2022)
  4. Chinese Diaspora Cuisine And Health (2022)
  5. A Comparative Analysis of Plant Use at Five Colonial Chespeake Sites, 1630-1720 (2022)
  6. Consuming Conquest: Changing Foodways in Historic New Mexico (2022)
  7. Cultivating the American Wilderness: Macrobotanical Evidence from Bartram’s Garden (2022)
  8. Entangled Earth: Exploring Past Indigenous Agricultural Landscapes of Wisconsin (2022)
  9. Extracting Information from Concentrations of Desiccated Plant Remains (2022)
  10. From The Leaves On The Trees In The Forest To The Stones And Sands Of The River: Archaeobotanical Investigations Of Spanish New Mexican Land Use (2022)
  11. Have you had rice today? The costs of consumption in Early Modern South India (2022)
  12. Luxury Taxa: An Analysis of Macrobotanical Remains from Monticello’s First Kitchen (2022)
  13. Macrobotanical Evidence for Tobacco Use within Enslaved Communities: Emerging Patterns from the Middle Atlantic States. (2022)
  14. New Directions for Pollen and Phytolith Analysis in Historic New England (2022)
  15. The Origins of Food Inequality in the US South: Intersecting the Past, Present, and Future (2022)
  16. Pueblo Agricultural Persistence and Innovation during Spanish Colonization (2022)
  17. Roots, Resilience, and Resistance: Evaluating Evidence of African American Herbal Medicine (2022)
  18. Seeing Forests Through the Seas: Ship Timbers as Landscape Artifacts in the Middle Atlantic (2022)
  19. Tracing the Movement of European-introduced Foods into Cherokee Country (2022)