Current Paleoethnobotany: Analytical Methods and Cultural Interpretations of Archaeological Plant Remains

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226318931
• ISBN13: 9780226318936
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"