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Our perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the most part out of botanical research, and its recent role as one of the most important economic staples in the world. Anthropological research in the early part of the last century based largely upon the historical particularistic approach of the Boasian tradition provided the first evidence that challenged the assumptions about the economic importance of maize to sociocultural developments for scholars of prehistory. Subsequent ethnobotanic and archaeological studies showed that the role of maize among Native American cultures was much more complex than just as a food staple. In Maize Cobs and Cultures, John Staller provides a survey of the ethnohistory and the scientific, botanical and biological research of maize, complemented by reviews on the ethnobotanic, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methodologies.

Corn -- History. --- Paleoethnobotany -- America. --- Corn --- Paleoethnobotany --- Agriculture --- History & Archaeology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Archaeology --- Plant Sciences --- History --- History. --- Corn plant --- Indian corn --- Maize --- Zea mays --- Fossil ethnobotany --- Palaeoethnobotany --- Social sciences. --- Culture --- Agriculture. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- Plant Sciences. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Methodology of the Social Sciences. --- Study and teaching. --- Zea --- Ethnobotany --- Paleobotany --- Plant remains (Archaeology)

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Paleoethnobotany, the study of archaeological plant remains, is poised at the intersection of the study of the past and concerns of the present, including agricultural decision making, biodiversity, and global environmental change, and has much to offer to archaeology, anthropology, and the interdisciplinary study of human relationships with the natural world. Method and Theory in Paleoethnobotany demonstrates those connections and highlights the increasing relevance of the study of past human-plant interactions for understanding the present and future.

Paleoethnobotany --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- Fossil ethnobotany --- Palaeoethnobotany --- Ethnobotany --- Paleobotany --- Archaeobotanical assemblages --- Archaeobotanical material --- Archaeobotanical remains --- Archaeobotany --- Archaeological plant remains --- Archaeology, Botanical --- Assemblages, Archaeobotanical --- Botanical archaeology --- Botany in archaeology --- Material, Archaeobotanical --- Phytoarchaeology --- Remains, Archaeobotanical --- Remains, Plant (Archaeology) --- Remains, Vegetal (Archaeology) --- Vegetal remains (Archaeology) --- Anthracology --- Methodology --- Paleoethnobotany. --- Methodology. --- HISTORY --- Plant remains (Archaeology). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Ancient --- General.

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In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethnobotanical (plant) data, and even fewer attempts to quantitatively integrate these two types of subsistence evidence. Given the vastly different methods used in recovering and quantifying these data, not to mention their different preservational histories, it is no wonder that so few have undertaken this problem. Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany takes the lead in tackling this important issue by addressing the methodological limitations of data integration, proposing new methods and innovative ways of using established methods, and highlighting case studies that successfully employ these methods to shed new light on ancient foodways. The volume challenges the perception that plant and animal foodways are distinct and contends that the separation of the analysis of archaeological plant and animal remains sets up a false dichotomy between these portions of the diet. In advocating qualitative and quantitative data integration, the volume establishes a clear set of methods for (1) determining the suitability of data integration in any particular case, and (2) carrying out an integrated qualitative or quantitative approach.

Animal remains (Archaeology). --- Paleoethnobotany. --- Prehistoric peoples -- Food. --- Animal remains (Archaeology) --- Paleoethnobotany --- Prehistoric peoples --- Food habits --- Archaeology --- History & Archaeology --- Food --- History --- Methodology --- Archaeology. --- Paleobotany. --- Fossil ethnobotany --- Palaeoethnobotany --- Fossil botany --- Palaeobotany --- Archeology --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Social sciences. --- Plant science. --- Botany. --- Zoology. --- Social Sciences. --- Plant Sciences. --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Antiquities --- Ethnobotany --- Paleobotany --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Botany --- Paleontology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Botanical science --- Phytobiology --- Phytography --- Phytology --- Plant biology --- Plant science --- Biology --- Natural history --- Plants --- Animals --- Floristic botany

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Although the need to study agriculture in different parts of the world on its "own terms" has long been recognized and re-affirmed, a tendency persists to evaluate agriculture across the globe using concepts, lines of evidence and methods derived from Eurasian research. However, researchers working in different regions are becoming increasingly aware of fundamental differences in the nature of, and methods employed to study, agriculture and plant exploitation practices in the past. Contributions to this volume rethink agriculture, whether in terms of existing regional chronologies, in ter

Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Ethnoarchaeology. --- Paleoethnobotany. --- Agriculture --- Plants, Cultivated --- Origin of cultivated plants --- Origin of agriculture --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Domestication --- Fossil ethnobotany --- Palaeoethnobotany --- Ethnobotany --- Paleobotany --- Ethnic archaeology --- Ethnicity in archaeology --- Ethnology in archaeology --- Archaeology --- Ethnology --- Social archaeology --- Archaeobotanical assemblages --- Archaeobotanical material --- Archaeobotanical remains --- Archaeobotany --- Archaeological plant remains --- Archaeology, Botanical --- Assemblages, Archaeobotanical --- Botanical archaeology --- Botany in archaeology --- Material, Archaeobotanical --- Phytoarchaeology --- Remains, Archaeobotanical --- Remains, Plant (Archaeology) --- Remains, Vegetal (Archaeology) --- Vegetal remains (Archaeology) --- Anthracology --- Origin. --- History --- Methodology --- Ethnoarchaeology --- Paleoethnobotany --- Origin --- Conferences - Meetings