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

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

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Author / Creator:	Messner, Timothy C.
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2011.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	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. Antiquities. Ecology. Ethnoarchaeology. Excavations (Archaeology) Paleoethnobotany. Plant remains (Archaeology) Starch -- Analysis. Woodland Indians -- Antiquities. Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Antiquities. Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Environmental conditions. United States -- Delaware River Watershed. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11122827

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ISBN:	9780817385316 0817385312 9780817356491 0817356495 9780817317270 0817317279
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Messner, Timothy C. Acorns and bitter roots. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2011 9780817356491

Table of Contents:

Introduction
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.