CAS AR 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fauna, Paleoethnobotany
21 Mar 2016
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& what did they eat enviro, subsistence, & diet (pg. "s 176-209) Enviro: governs human life: laitude, alitude, landforms, & climate determine vegetaion, which determines animal life, & both determine diet, all together, determine how & where humans lived. Reconstrucing the enviro. on a global scale: evidence from sea & ice cores: analysis of isotopic raios w/in ocean straigraphy & ice can give accurate idea of climate, evidence from tree-rings. Reconstrucing the plant enviro: microbotanical remains, pollen, phytoliths, diatoms unicellular algae found in lake & shore sediments, macrobotanical remains, seeds & fruit, plant residues, wood (e. g. charcoal) Study of contemporary cultures w/ a view to understanding behavioral relaionships that underlie producion of material culture: paleo-ethnobotany (archaeobotany) recovery & ideniicaion of plant remains from arch. contexts; used in reconstrucing past enviro. "s & economics. What can plant foods tell us about diet: macrobotanical remains, what plants were present, problems: quaniicaion & interpretaion.
