As a field of study, Paleoethnobotany comprises a subfield of environmental archaeology. It involves the investigation of both ancient environments and human activities related to those environments, as well as an understanding of how the two co-evolved. Plant remains recovered from ancient sediments within the landscape or at archaeological sites serve as the primary evidence for various research avenues within paleoethnobotany, such as the origins of plant domestication, the development of agriculture, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, subsistence strategies, paleodiets, economic structures, and more. Macrobotanical remains comprise vegetative parts of plants, such as seeds, leaves, stems and chaff, as well as wood and charcoal that can either be observed with the naked eye or the with the use of a low-powered microscope. Point/Spot samples: consist of sediment collected only from a particular location Pinch samples: comprise of small amounts of sediment that are collected from across the whole context and combined in one bag Column samples: consist of sediment collected from the different stratigraphic layers of a column of sediment that was deliberately left unexcavated
As a field of study, Paleoethnobotany is a subfield of environmental archaeology. It involves the investigation of both ancient environments and human activities related to those environments, as well as an understanding of how the two co-evolved. Plant remains recovered from ancient sediments within the landscape or at archaeological sites serve as the primary evidence for various research avenues within paleoethnobotany, such as the origins of plant domestication, the development of agriculture, paleoenvironmental reconstructions, subsistence strategies, paleodiets, economic structures, and more. Macrobotanical remains are vegetative parts of plants, such as seeds, leaves, stems and chaff, as well as wood and charcoal that can either be observed with the naked eye or the with the use of a low-powered microscope. Point/Spot samples: consist of sediment collected only from a particular location Pinch samples: consist of small amounts of sediment that are collected from across the whole context and combined in one bag Column samples: consist of sediment collected from the different stratigraphic layers of a column of sediment that was deliberately left unexcavated
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