This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

This article discusses paleoethnobotanical research and results presented in the recent
literature. Although archaeobotany is a fairly recent addition to the study of the past, it now …

Paleoethnobotany offers powerful tools for reconstructing past cultures by examining the
interaction of human populations with the plant world. Plant remains from archaeological …

During the past 20 years the collection of samples for flotation and subsequent
paleoethnobotanical analyses have flourished. At the same time, archaeologists have …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the paleoethnobotany in American archaeology.
For a half-century, American archaeologists have been encouraged to save plant remains …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses some of the principles behind archaeobotanical
analysis. Archaeobotany is the art and science of recovering, identifying, and interpreting …

Paleoethnobotanists learn little about human interaction with the plant world from raw plant-
remains data. Cultural and noncultural factors bias the types and numbers of remains we …

Charcoal is the most common plant material recovered archaeologically, yet it frequently
remains unanalyzed. All archaeologists appreciate the importance of charcoal for …

Ratios provide a simple means of standardizing data. If we understand the assumptions
underlying their use, we can construct ratios that are appropriate for inter-and intrasite …

The main goal of zooarchaeology, as a specialty within archaeology, is to interpret human
and environment interactions based primarily on the animal remains recovered from …