Book chapter
So Little Maize, So Much Time: Understanding Maize Adoption in New England
Current Northeast Ethnobotany II, pp.53-58
New York State Museum
2008
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/111687
Abstract
The macrobotanical evidence from this site made it clear that the presence of maize on archaeological sites and the time period of occupation itself is not enough to allow us to interpret the importance of domesticated plants in pre-Contact economies. For example, all of the 200+ kernels of maize came from one pit feature and, in fact, could have been from one only cob (Chilton 1999). Furthermore, while there were numerous maize kernels in one of the 21 pit features, we had far more butternut shells and squirrel bone fragments than we had maize kernels. It was clear that we needed to look beyond a simple quantification of the macrobotanical remains in order to make interpretations of diet.
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- Title
- So Little Maize, So Much Time: Understanding Maize Adoption in New England
- Creators
- Elizabeth Chilton (Author) - Washington State University, Office of the Provost
- Publication Details
- Current Northeast Ethnobotany II, pp.53-58
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- New York State Museum
- Identifiers
- 99900586060401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter