...This chapter uses foodways data to explore the effects of increasing reliance on cultivated plant foods on social relationships at a complex of sites in the foothills of eastern Tennessee. Paleoethnobotany data demonstrate that the occupants increasingly invested in native cultigens from 3500...

... integrates analyses of pottery, paleoethnobotany, zooarchaeology, and depositional processes associated with a Mississippian (AD 1050–1550) “ash heap” to argue that aspects of maize harvest ceremonialism have origins at least as early as the fourteenth century AD. Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century...

... to foodways. Fortunately, zooarchaeology and paleoethnobotany allows us to piece together this information from multiple lines of evidence. In this chapter, Tanya Peres reviews the subsistence evidence we have to date for Apalachee Province during the Mission Period, including animal and plant data...

...This chapter examines 1,500 paleoethnobotany samples collected from over 700 contexts by the archaeology team at the Maya farming community of Chan. Paleoethnobotanical studies illustrate that for two millennia Maya farmers at Chan established forest maintenance strategies that allowed the mature...

..., geoarchaeology, and paleoethnobotany data from shell-bearing strata recovered in 2010 and 2012 suggest that the two shell-bearing deposits mark the locations of shellfish processing at or near the river’s edge when the river channel was physically closer to the current site location. Particle-size data indicate...