Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Advances in Macrobotanical and Microbotanical Archaeobotany" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This symposium, sponsored by the Archaeobotany Interest Group, provides a forum for the dissemination of recent methodological and theoretical innovations in both macrobotanical and microbotanical archaeobotany. Papers in this symposium span time and world regions, and address the full range of research questions explored in archaeobotany, in order to display the current state of the field. The symposium welcomes the work of early-career scholars and established researchers alike, and invites presentations from academic, public, community, and compliance archaeology. The goal of this session is to explore recent developments in the study of human-plant interactions, and we welcome papers that highlight new archaeological case studies or new analytical techniques.

Other Keywords
Paleoethnobotany • historical ecology • Subsistence and Foodways • Environment and Climate

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  1. Agitating for Good Outcomes: A New Protocol for Improved Recovery of Floral and Faunal Remains (2025)
  2. Applications of Black Feminist Theory to Archaeobotanical Analysis: A Case Study of Belle Grove’s Enslaved Quarters (2025)
  3. The Archaeological Potential of North American Fungal Microfossils (2025)
  4. Dryland Foraging and Resilience in the Archaic Period at San Esteban Rockshelter, SW Texas: Phytolith Perspectives (2025)
  5. <html>The Effects of Nixtamalization on Maize (<i>Zea mays</i> ssp. <i>mays</i>) Phytoliths in Controlled Cooking Experiments</html> (2025)
  6. Identifying Nixtamalization at Formative Period Tres Zapotes, Veracruz, Mexico (2025)
  7. Long term perspectives from archaeobotany in the southern Levant: crop specialisation, food and crop waste, and upcycling. (2025)
  8. New Archaebotany from the Augusta Site, Kentucky, Expands Our Understanding of Fort Ancient Plant Use and Its Role in Mortuary Ritual (2025)
  9. Plants, Proprietors, Plans and People: Evidence of Synergy Between Early English Scientific Agricultural Experimentation, Enslaved African Knowledge, and Use of the Town Commons in the Early Carolina Colony (2025)
  10. Revitalizing Indigenous Foodways: An archaeobotanical multidisciplinary approach to identifying Caçabí bread in precolonial Borikén (Puerto Rico) (2025)
  11. What Fell Through the Floorboards: Botanical Remains from Pon Yam House, Idaho City (2025)
  12. When Tragedy Begets “Harvest”: A Comparison of the Macrobotanical Assemblages Recovered from two New England Colonial English House Sites (2025)