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2024- People & Plants

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People & Plants 2024
Awarded third prize in the annual SAA Poster Contest.

Physical evidence of the relationship between people and plants is not well preserved in the archaeological record. This is especially true compared to the stones and bones traditionally associated with the material culture of the past. Although comprising a significant portion of the precontact diet, plant processing is often relegated to the periphery. Paleoethnobotany ( or archaeobotany) studies this human-plant relationship at archaeological sites. Examples of evidence of plant processing can be identified as the bits of plant remains on groundstone, burned seeds in a thermal feature, or trace remains in a steatite bowl. Depicted on the poster, left to right, are plant resources, tools used for plant processing, or perishable artifacts with botanical elements: paper onion bulbs, yarro, a mano and metate, a steatite bowl, pinyon pine cones, sage, a replica wooden grinding mortar, and in the front, an arrow, a replica digging stick, and a rabbit snare with botanical cordage.

More information about People & Plants below:

People & Plants Archaeology Brochure 2024
Size : 1.39 mb Format : PDF
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