Acorns and bitter roots
Subtitle: starch grain research in the prehistoric Eastern Woodlands
By: Timothy C. Messner
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780817356491; 9780817385316
Subjects: Ethnoarchaeology; Starch; Woodland Indians; Antiquities; Analysis; Environmental conditions; Paleoethnobotany; Excavations (Archaeology); Plant remains (Archaeology); Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Interactions between people and plants; title: The biology and archaeology of starch grain research; title: Approaches to and outcomes of plant processing; title: Starch grain studies in the Delaware River Watershed and beyond; title: Woodland Period plant use in the Delaware River Watershed; title: The environment of paleoethnobotany.