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Author Messner, Timothy C.

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

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 195 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
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Subject Woodland Indians -- Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Antiquities.
Woodland Indians.
Antiquities.
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.
Methodology.
Ethnoarchaeology -- Methodology.
Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Antiquities.
Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Messner, Timothy C. Acorns and bitter roots. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, ©2011 9780817356491 (DLC) 2010032809 (OCoLC)658200283
ISBN 9780817385316 (electronic book)
0817385312 (electronic book)
9780817356491 (paper ; alkaline paper)
0817356495 (paper ; alkaline paper)
9780817317270 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0817317279 (cloth ; alkaline paper)