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People, Plants, and Landscapes showcases the potential of modern paleoethnobotany, an interdisciplinary field that explores the interactions between human beings and plants by examining archaeological evidence. Using different methods and theoretical approaches, the essays in this work apply botanical knowledge to studies of archaeological plant remains and apply paleoethnobotany to nonarchaeological sources of evidence. The resulting techniques often lie beyond the traditional boundaries of either archaeology or botany.

Paleoethnobotany. --- Paleoethnobotany --- Archaeology --- History & Archaeology --- Fossil ethnobotany --- Palaeoethnobotany --- Ethnobotany --- Paleobotany --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Paléoethnobotanique

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Plants from the Past is a fascinating, comprehensive record of the work of two dedicated plant scientists who were instrumental in the establishment of archaeobotany and paleoethnobotany as vigorous subdisciplines within American archaeology. Hugh Carson Cutler and Leonard Watson Blake worked together for many decades at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, identifying and interpreting plant remains from archaeological sites all over North America. Covering a period of 30 years and tracing the development of the study of plant remains from archaeological sites,

Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Paleoethnobotany. --- Indians of North America --- Corn --- Plants, Cultivated --- Antiquities. --- History. --- United States

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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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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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This volume contributes to the emerging topic of social paleoethnobotany with a series of papers exploring dynamic aspects of past social life, particularly the day-to-day practices and politics of procuring, preparing, and consuming plants. The contributors to this volume illustrate how one can bridge differences between the natural and social sciences through the more socially-focused interpretations of botanical datasets. The chapters in this volume draw on a diversity of plant-derived datasets, macrobotanical, microbotanical, and molecular, which contribute to general paleoethnobotanical practice today. They also carefully consider the contexts in which the plant remains were recovered. These studies illustrate that the richest interpretations come from projects that are able to consider the widest range of data types, particularly as they aim to move beyond simple descriptions of food items and environmental settings. The authors in this volume address several themes including: the collection of wild resources, the domestication of crops and spread of agriculture, the role of plant remains in questions regarding domestic life, ritual, and gender as well as the broader implications of a socially-engaged paleoethnobotany. These studies point a path forward for the constantly evolving field of paleoethnobotany, one that is methodologically rigorous and theoretically engaged. Together, these papers shed light on ways in which the specialized analysis of plant remains can contribute to theory building and advancing archaeological understanding of past lifeways. .

Social sciences. --- Environment. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- Environment, general. --- Paleoethnobotany. --- Archaeology --- Methodology. --- Fossil ethnobotany --- Palaeoethnobotany --- Ethnobotany --- Paleobotany --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Environmental sciences. --- Environmental science --- Science --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology