Internet Archive Scholar

Shrub, Scrub, and Grass: The Importance of Shrubland and Grassland Plant Communities to the Diet of the Late Prehistoric (A.D. 900-1535) Hunter-Gatherers of the Eastern Trans-Pecos Region of Texas

Casey Riggs
2014 Index of Texas Archaeology Open Access Grey Literature from the Lone Star State  

Preserved Fulltext

fulltext thumbnail
Web Archive Capture PDF (1.1 MB)
https://web.archive.org/web/20200830205122/https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2574&context=ita

A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2020; you can also visit the original URL. The file type is application/pdf.

The Eastern Trans-Pecos archeological region of Texas is an area rich in botanical diversity, a resource heavily utilized by both prehistoric and historic hunter-gatherers. A comparison of four paleoethnobotanical investigations of archeological sites dating to the Late Prehistoric Era (A.D. 900-1535) with ethnobotanical information of the Mescalero Apache reveal that the botanical component of prehistoric and historic diets have been similar for the past 1,000 years. Differences in the degree
more » ... f similarity can be contributed to differential preservation and analytical techniques. Further, ecological sites from the Ecological Site Information System are demonstrated as a novel and useful tool for landscape-scale archeological analysis.
doi:10.21112/ita.2014.1.74 fatcat:vd6z6byg3zakvf45banxh446ca
Open Access
Citation

Casey Riggs. "Shrub, Scrub, and Grass: The Importance of Shrubland and Grassland Plant Communities to the Diet of the Late Prehistoric (A.D. 900-1535) Hunter-Gatherers of the Eastern Trans-Pecos Region of Texas." Index of Texas Archaeology Open Access Grey Literature from the Lone Star State (2014)