CCAC Synthetic Archaeobotany Table: Top Plant Ranking and Ubiquity Data

Summary

This table presents ranking information for the top ten plant foods and top five fuelwoods based on presence (ubiquity) synthesized across 43 Ancestral Puebloan settlements occupied ca. AD 500-1280 excavated by Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Rankings are listed both for each period and the overall rank for each taxon across all periods is also provided. Ubiquities for each taxon (calculated from all samples) are also displayed and, where a minimum of ten samples are available, thermal feature and midden/secondary deposit ubiquities are also presented.

As ubiquity calculations assume all samples in a group are independent, sample counts in some cases where discrete features were heavily sampled were consolidated. For example, a hearth feature sampled and analyzed as eight flotation samples was only counted as a single sample. As such, ubiquity values in this table are calculated from a total of 1,016 samples that could be assigned to one of nine chronological culture periods. In this table, sample counts are further assigned to deposit types to allow for comparisons between plants recovered from thermal features that likely represent the last few uses of the feature and from midden and other secondary deposit contexts that provide a insights into a wider range of plant preparation and discard practices accumulated over a longer period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Crow Canyon Archaeobotanical Remains

Keywords

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 500 to 1280

Spatial Coverage

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Sarah Oas

Lab Director(s): Karen R. Adams

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