A Reexamination of Hurricane Hill Macrobotanicals

Summary

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

Early Caddo ethnobotany is understudied compared to later periods due to a variety of factors, including preservation and sample size issues. The Hurricane Hill Site (41HP106) is an Early Caddo site with carbonized plant materials previously examined by Gary Crites and Eileen Goldborer. This study analyzed a subsample of Hurricane Hill macrobotanicals stored at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas to determine whether their contents were consistent with those examined previously. In general, the results are consistent with past family and genus identifications, as well as the low density of carbonized materials noted previously. These findings emphasize the difficulty in studying macrobotanicals from this period and region and the importance of large sample sizes in Early Caddo macrobotanical analysis.

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): 39326.0