Maize, Mast, and Other Plant Resources from the Late Prehistoric and Contact Period North Carolina Piedmont

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Contact period is often designated as a significant temporal marker for American archaeology. Excavations led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the Siouan Project have produced an extensive number of archaeobotanical samples from late Prehistoric and Contact period Native Piedmont sites. Macrobotanical data from ten sites associated with the Siouan Project are complied and analyzed in this paper. Archaeological data generated by the project has provided strong evidence of both change and continuity associated with Native lifeways during this period in North Carolina and Virginia. In this paper, I work to create a nuanced depiction of Native American plant use that highlights the appearance of plants in a variety of contexts and the agency of Native peoples.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020   •
• Before, After, and In Between: Archaeological Approaches to Places (through/in) Time

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PaperId(s): 745