Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures / Edition 3

by Deborah M Pearsall

Overview

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall organization and approach of the book to facilitate its use as a textbook. In addition to updates on the comprehensive discussions of macroremains, pollen, and phytoliths, this edition includes a chapter on starch analysis, the newest tool in the paleoethnobotanist's research kit. Other highlights include updated case studies; expanded discussions of deposition and preservation of archaeobotanical remains; updated historical overviews; new and updated techniques and approaches, including insights from experimental and ethnoarchaeological studies; and a current listing of electronic resources. Extensively illustrated, this will be the standard work on paleoethnobotany for a generation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611322989
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/31/2015
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	514
Product dimensions:	8.62(w) x 10.88(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Preface to the Third Edition, Preface to the Second Edition, Preface to the First Edition, Chapter 1. The Paleoethnobotanical Approach, Chapter 2. Deposition, Preservation, and Recovery of Macroremains, Chapter 3. Identification and Interpretation of Macroremains, Chapter 4. Pollen Analysis, Chapter 5. Phytolith Analysis, Chapter 6. Starch Analysis, Chapter 7. Integrating Biological Data, References, Index, About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Second Edition: “Paleoethnobotany: An Handbook of Procedures is valuable for its comprehensive outline of approaches and techniques of research, but more importantly, it exists as the only book of its kind. Pearsall has made an effort to make the book accessible to both anthropologists and botanists and succeeds admirably.”
—SIDA: Contributions to Botany


Praise for the Second Edition: “Pearsall should be commended for bringing together ideas culled from other disciplines (geology, biology, ecology) and recasting them in an archaeological light...Overall, a book that can satisfy a wide audience.”
—CHOICE


Praise for the First Edition: “Every archaeologist planning to excavate a site needs to read Pearsall's section on sampling botanical remains before digging...”
—American Anthropologist

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