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



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Autore: Messner Timothy C Visualizza persona
Titolo: Acorns and bitter roots [[electronic resource] ] : starch grain research in the prehistoric Eastern Woodlands / / Timothy C. Messner Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 p.)
Disciplina: 974.9/01
Soggetto topico: Woodland Indians - Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) - Antiquities
Excavations (Archaeology) - Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Plant remains (Archaeology) - Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Starch - Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) - Analysis
Paleoethnobotany - Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Ethnoarchaeology - Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)
Paleoethnobotany - Methodology
Ethnoarchaeology - Methodology
Soggetto geografico: Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) Antiquities
Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) Environmental conditions
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Acorns and bitter roots  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8531-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910791966503321
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