Introduction -- Modeling the Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic periods in the southeast -- The landscape of the Middle Tennessee River Valley -- Modeling resource procurement in the Middle Tennessee River Valley -- Paleoethnobotanical analysis: data and methods -- Paleoethnobotanical analysis: results -- Subsistence and mobility in northeast Alabama
Summary
Plants are inarguably a significant component of the diets of foraging peoples in non-arctic environments. As such, the decisions and activities associated with the gathering and exploitation of plants are important to foragers' subsistence pursuits. Plant remains are particularly important for understanding gathering activities. Inasmuch as plant foods comprised a considerable portion of early foragers' diets, and the gathering and processing of these plant resources occupied a significant proportion of the population, namely women, children, and the elderly, an understanding of gathering act
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