Archaeobotany Foodscapes

Summary

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.

There is more than one way to gain insight about past Native American use of plants. The conventional approach is to collect archaeobotanical samples during archaeological excavations. Another perspective is to inventory the environments surrounding sites and communities to understand the foodscape that might have been accessible to people. Karen Adams was one of the first Southwest archaeobotanists to apply the landscape-scale resource approach to examine prehistoric subsistence strategies. She expanded this ecological research through contract projects and inspired the next generation of archaeologists and archaeobotanists. In this presentation, Karen’s field school archaeobotany module from the Rock Art Ranch is summarized and a foodscape archaeobotany example from Ajo, Arizona is presented.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• 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): 38863.0