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Paleoethnobotany offers powerful tools for reconstructing past cultures by examining the interaction of human populations with the plant world. Plant remains from archaeological sites can provide information for a number of disciplines: archaeologists may use such remains to examine how plants were used, how agriculture changed over time, or how plant offerings in burials signaled social status; ecologists and botanists may use them to study morphological changes in plants due to domestication. Combining case studies and theoretical discussions,' Current Paleoethnobotany' presents the first full discussion of the major stages and problems of paleoethnobotanical research, from designing and testing equipment, such as flotation machines, to quantification and interpretation. The volume explores a wide range of issues concerning collection techniques, analytical procedures, and interpretive models that will provide accurate information about past human societies from plant remains. The contributors offer data on specific regions as well as more general background information on the basic techniques of paleoethnobotany for the nonspecialist. Throughout, they explicitly examine the assumptions underlying paleoethnobotanical methods and the ways in which those assumptions affect anthropological and ecological research questions. Based on a symposium presented at the 1985 meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 'Current Paleoethnobotany' moves beyond a technique-oriented view of paleoethnobotany to successfully integrate current thinking about both procedures and research goals. The contributors demonstrate the potential value of the field of paleoethnobotany and open the way for further discussion and improvement.

Paleoethnobotany. --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Plant remains (Archaeology). --- Paleoethnobotany --- 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) --- Archaeology --- Paleobotany --- Anthracology --- Fossil ethnobotany --- Palaeoethnobotany --- Ethnobotany --- Methodology

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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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"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 organization and approach of the book to facilitate its use as a textbook. In addition to updates on the comprehensive discussions of macroremains, pollen, and phytoliths, this edition includes a chapter on starch analysis, the newest tool in the paleoethnobotanist's research kit. Other highlights include updated case studies; expanded discussions of deposition and preservation of archaeobotanical remains; updated historical overviews; new and updated techniques and approaches, including insights from experimental and ethnoarchaeological studies; and a current listing of electronic resources. Extensively illustrated, this will be the standard work on paleoethnobotany for a generation"--

Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Paleoethnobotany. --- 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) --- Archaeology --- Anthracology --- Methodology --- Arkeobotanik --- Paleobotanik --- Plant remains (Archaeology). --- SCIENCE --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Växtlämningar (arkeologi). --- Metodik. --- Life Sciences --- Botany. --- Archaeology. --- Paleoethnobotany

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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 habits --- Archaeology --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Paléoethnobotanique --- Homme préhistorique --- Habitudes alimentaires --- Archéologie --- Food. --- History. --- Methodology. --- Alimentation --- Histoire --- Méthodologie --- Restes d'animaux (Archéologie) --- Paléoethnobotanique --- Homme préhistorique --- Archéologie --- Méthodologie --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVHUMAI SPRINGER-B --- Paleoethnobotany --- Food --- Agriculture, Prehistoric --- Fossil ethnobotany --- Palaeoethnobotany --- Ethnobotany --- Paleobotany --- Plant remains (Archaeology) --- Archaeozoology --- Zooarchaeology --- Zoology in archaeology --- Bones --- Animal paleopathology --- Methodology --- History --- Primitive societies