Karen Adams: Scholar, Collaborator, and Friend

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This is an abstract from the "Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Karen Adams richly deserves recognition as a premier, foundational Southwest archaeobotanist, a status personally and professionally celebrated by the organizers of today’s session in her honor and by her past term as President of the Society of Ethnobiology. Few other researchers in the field approach her qualifications, breadth of knowledge, experience, and pioneering scholarly accomplishments. She is remarkable for the most fine-grained and rigorous of studies as well as broadly interpretive works that draw upon an encyclopedic command of related disciplines. Karen is further unique for her far-reaching professional networks, cooperative spirit, generosity, and mentoring of upcoming scholars. I will touch on recurring interests that Karen has continued to build on in multiple directions and at multiple scales throughout her career. Perhaps the most exemplary of these ongoing interests is the accurate characterization of corn and its role in the unfolding histories of regional traditions. I will comment on several opportunities to coauthor timely syntheses of plant-focused archaeological research with Karen. They were unforgettable encounters with her deep scholarship and keen insights.

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• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Enduring Relationships: People, Plants, and the Contributions of Karen R. Adams

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Abstract Id(s): 39482.0