Of Elderberries and Alder: Collaborations on the Paleoethnobotany of the Pacific Northwest

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In 2019, construction monitoring of a large, King County-directed levee replacement project identified a diffuse and deeply buried archaeological site on the Green River, south of Seattle, Washington. This poster presents the results of paleoethnobotanical and AMS analyses conducted on plant materials from precontact-era combustion features and pits. Substantial elderberry deposits and hardwood-filled hearths give insight into riparian food plants, woody resources, and processing techniques so important to Coast Salish lifeways past and present. These data may be utilized by tribes to inform landscape restoration work at the Lower Russell Levee site (45KI1285) and to help refine the “Since Time Immemorial: Tribal Sovereignty in Washington State” curriculum taught in K-12 schools.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37250.0