Acorns and bitter roots : starch grain research in the prehistoric Eastern Woodlands / Timothy C. Messner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Messner, Timothy C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woodland Indians--Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Antiquities.

Woodland Indians.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.).

Excavations (Archaeology).

Plant remains (Archaeology)--Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.).

Plant remains (Archaeology).

Starch--Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Analysis.

Starch.

Paleoethnobotany--Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.).

Paleoethnobotany.

Ethnoarchaeology--Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.).

Ethnoarchaeology.

Paleoethnobotany--Methodology.

Ethnoarchaeology--Methodology.

Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Antiquities.

Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.).

Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

People regularly use plants for a wide range of utilitarian, spiritual, pharmacological, and dietary purposes throughout the world. Scholarly understanding of the nature of these uses in prehistory is particularly limited by the poor preservation of plant resources in the archaeological record. In the last two decades, researchers in the South Pacific and in Central and South America have developed microscopic starch grain analysis, a technique for overcoming the limitations of poorly preserved plant material. In Acorns and Bitter Roots, Timothy C. Mes

Contents:

Interactions between people and plants

The biology and archaeology of starch grain research

Approaches to and outcomes of plant processing

Starch grain studies in the Delaware River Watershed and beyond

Woodland Period plant use in the Delaware River Watershed

The environment of paleoethnobotany.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8531-2

OCLC:

772459664