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Author:

Messner, Timothy C.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xiv, 195 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

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.
Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Antiquities.
Delaware River Watershed (N.Y.-Del. and N.J.)--Environmental conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0817317279 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780817317270 (cloth : alk. paper)
0817385312 (electronic)
9780817385316 (electronic)
0817356495 (paper : alk. paper)
9780817356491 (paper : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)658200283

LCCN:

2010032809

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)