Acorns and bitter roots :: starch grain research in the prehistoric Eastern Woodlands /

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 t...

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Main Author: Messner, Timothy C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2011.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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. Messner establishes starch grain anal.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780817385316
0817385312

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