Paleoethnobotany
Subtitle: A Handbook of Procedures, Second Edition
Publisher: Left Coast Press, Inc.
Published: May 31, 2009
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 725
ISBN-13: 9781598744729
Subjects: Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Archaeology; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Sociology; Science -- Biological Sciences -- Botany; Science -- Biological Sciences -- Plants
First sentence: In 1941, Volney H. Jones published a short article, "The Nature and Status of Ethnobotany," in which he formalized a field of inquiry into mankind's knowledge and use of plants: ethnobotany, "the study of the interrelations of primitive man and plants" (1941:220).