Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Preceramic Sites in the Sabana de Bogotá

Summary

The Sabana de Bogotá is one of the most extensively studied regions of preceramic archaeology in Colombia. Many of these projects were carried out by or in conjunction with Dr. Gonzalo Correal (UNAL) and contributed a wealth of information on the period including paleoenvironmental data, tool use, and faunal data. However, few botanical remains have been recovered which resulted from the sieving of a few small samples or were found in-situ. Recent excavations conducted at rockshelters and open-air sites revisited several sites in the in the region that had yielded macrobotanical evidence when excavated by Dr. Correal. These excavations resulted in the systematic collection of column samples for flotation and microbotanical analysis affording the first opportunity to fully examine the use of plants in the preceramic period of this region. This presentation provides a preliminary summary of the paleoethnobotanical analysis of this preceramic assemblage. An assemblage that will eventually serve as a baseline for understanding diachronic changes in foodways and contribute to an understanding of human-environmental interactions in the preceramic period of the Sabana de Bogotá.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
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