Seeds, Weeds, And Prehistoric Hunters And Gatherers
The Plant Macrofossil Evidence From Southwest Wyoming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9216808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig S Smith (0000-0002-5923-7921, Mariah Associates, Inc. P. 0. Box 1048 Laramie, WY 82070, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 120 |
| Pages | 141-158 |
| Publication date | 1988-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2052546.1988.11909433 |
| OpenAlex | W1500286142 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 10 |
Little information is available on the role of plants in the prehistoric hunter and gatherer societies of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions. The recovery of thousands of chaced seeds from the fill of 152 hearths or pit features at eight prehistoric sites provides an excellent opportunity to study the importance of seed foods in the subsistence of prehistoric inhabitants in southwest Wyoming, an area between the Great Plains, northern Colorado Plateau, and Great Basin. The type and season of represented activities are inferred partly from ethnographic and historic literature. Comparisons with other macrofossil studies in the area indicate a greater reliance on seeds from weedy annuals during the Late Prehistoric than in earlier Archaic periods. This greater reliance may have resulted from hunters and gatherers intentionally or accidentally manipulating their environment. They may have burned off the vegetation or actually broadcasted seeds of desired plants
Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Colorado plateau · Geography · Hearth · Holocene · Hunter-gatherer · Macrofossil · Plateau (mathematics) · Prehistory · Subsistence agriculture · Vegetation (pathology) · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and Natural History · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies · Ecology · Geology
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Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its tributaries Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872, under the direction of the secretary of the Smithsonian institution
Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-'44 /by J.C. Frémont.
Seed Identification Manual
Ethnobotany of the Hopi. Alfred F. Whiting. (Museum of Northern Arizona, Bulletin 15. Flagstaff, Arizona. June, 1939.)
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2024 (34) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |