Recent Research in Paleoethnobotany |
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Authors: | Christine A Hastorf |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Anthropology, University of California, 94720 Berkeley, California |
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Abstract: | 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 encompasses a diverse range of techniques, analyses, and new
results. Issues that are prominent in this archaeological subdiscipline include the origins of agriculture, resource use,
environmental reconstruction, anthropogenic environmental change, political-economic change, plant cultivation and crop production,
plant processing, consumption (diet), and site deposition. Some of the plant identification methods for macrobotanical remains
include morphology using light microscopes, histology with the scanning electron microscope, and statistics. The study of
microbotanical remains has expanded greatly and now includes pollen, phytolith, chemical, and molecular analyses. |
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Keywords: | archaeology plants archaeobotany paleoethnobotany |
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