Macrobotanical Evidence from Poverty Point

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

While it was initially assumed that the residents of Poverty Point relied on an agricultural subsistence base, it soon became apparent that there was no macrobotanical evidence supporting such an assumption. Instead, subsistence remains were found to be generally consistent with a Late Archaic hunting, fishing and gathering economy. Macrobotanical remains recovered from multiple Poverty Point testing and excavation projects, and analyzed between 2014 and 2022, have yielded a wealth of information about the subsistence activities of Poverty Point’s Late Archaic inhabitants. The diversity of plant taxa represented in the assemblages adds nuance to traditional paradigms of Late Archaic foodways in the region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• *SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research

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Abstract Id(s): 37941.0