Dietary Inferences based on Starch Residues from O’Mallely Shelter, Southern Great Basin

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This poster presents a history of prehistoric plant use based on starches recovered from plant processing tools at O’Malley Shelter, Lincoln County, Nevada. O’Malley Shelter (26LN418) is an important archaeological site in the Clover Mountains near the Great Basin’s southern margin, with an 8,000-year long record of occupation. Extraction and analysis of starch residues from an extensive sample of milling stone, ceramic, and basketry artifacts provides a record of the use of starch-bearing plants through the past several millennia, including pinyon pine, acorns, geophytes, native grasses, maize, and other important plant foods. The dietary plant food history from O’Malley Shelter is considered in relation to other prehistoric dietary trends in the Great Basin region.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38834.0