Graduate Research in Paleoethnobotany

Maria Bruno is conducting ethnoarchaeological research in Bolivia, focusing on early use of quinoa and other Andean crops.

 

 

 

 

Catrina Adams (below, right) taking samples to process for carbonized plant remains at Quoygrew, a Viking/Late Medieval farm in Orkney, Scotland

 

 

Kevin Hanselka (left) is surveying archaeological sites and collecting modern plant specimens in Tamaulipas, Mexico

 

 

 

Monte Abbott is studying the use of plants by late pre-contact peoples in the southeastern U.S.  Here he is excavating at the Shiloh site in Tennessee.

Dawn Kaufmann (left) is analyzing plant remains from a Kofun period (AD 300-700) house in Southern Japan.

 

Karla Hansen-Speer is exploring the use of agave plants by the Hohokam, prehistoric desert agriculturalists.  Agave plants were cultivated on rock-pile fields in southern Arizona.
Liz Horton (left) studies plant fibers and textiles.  Here she is collecting Rattlesnake Master plants (Eryngium yuccafolium) in Kentucky to help identify artifacts from rockshelters in Eastern North America.

 

 
Sarah Walshaw took this Scanning Electron Micrograph (right) of a pearl millet grain from the site of Chwaka on Pemba Island Tanzania, dated by association to between 8-10th century A.D.