The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Plants, and their products, are key to our lives. They provide the basis for foods, medicines, technologies, architecture, and well-being practices. Our interaction with plants in the present is supported by a wealth of cultural and ecological knowledge built up over millennia of living in different environments around the world. In this symposia, we will engage with current and emerging evidence for the early use of plants, focusing on the movement of early humans and our closest ancestors into new environments globally. This process of colonization incorporates interaction with new plant species, vegetation communities, and landscapes. As such it draws both on culturally inherited ecological knowledge and the ability to learn and experiment. We aim to foster discussion about this process and the archaeobotanical techniques required to examine it, and to consider the relationship of these early interactions to long-term trajectories of human-environment interaction.
Other Keywords
Paleoethnobotany •
Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers •
Subsistence and Foodways •
Paleolithic •
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican •
Subsistence and Foodways: Domestication •
Domestication •
Migration •
Phytoliths •
Archaic
Geographic Keywords
Republic of Panama (Country) •
Republic of Ecuador (Country) •
Republic of Colombia (Country) •
South America (Continent) •
Belize (Country) •
Republic of Peru (Country) •
Netherlands Antilles (Country) •
Aruba (Country) •
United Mexican States (Country) •
Republic of El Salvador (Country)
Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-13 of 13)
- Documents (13)
- Circa 12,000-Year-Old Fiber Technologies in the Atacama Desert (2024)
- Domestic Space and Food Production in the Mesoamerican Neotropics During the Early Holocene (2024)
- Early and Middle Holocene Food Choices, Farming, and Diet Quality in the Neotropical Maya Area (2024)
- Early Plant Food Use and Processing: Insights from Madjedbebe Rockshelter, Northern Australia (2024)
- Early Social Life of Andean Tuber and Seed Domestication (2024)
- Early Use of High-Altitude Tubers in the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia (2024)
- From the Mountains to the Sea: A Deep-Time Perspective on the Heritage of Foods in Papua New Guinea (2024)
- Mapping Heat: Pinpointing Early Human Interactions with Chili Pepper in Mexico (2024)
- The Origins of Amazonian Cuisine: Archaeobotanical Study of Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence Systems in Limoncillos, Colombia (2024)
- Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Plant Food Use in the Northern Zagros: New Evidence from Carbonized Plant Macro-remains (2024)
- Transported Landscapes and Globalized Foodways in the Settlement of Western Indian Ocean Islands (2024)
- Use of Introduced and Native Plants by Early Humans in the Japanese Archipelago (2024)
- Vegeculture Agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands: The Archaeobotany of Enset (2024)