Abstract: Archaeobotany is a well-established field of archaeology that studies plant remains recovered from archaeological sites. The vast majority of archaeobotanical studies so far published have dealt with reconstructing how humans exploited plants rather than human-plant interactions. The grand challenges in which archaeobotany plays a primary role are those assessing questions related to human-environment interactions and those related to emergence, communities, and complexity. Archaeobotanical remains are traditionally grouped into macro- and micro- remains. Microremains have very different degrees of preservation in archaeological deposits. Over the last several thousands of years, the resources exploited for food and the food procurement strategies of human groups have drastically changed. Domestication is a co-evolutionary process associated with a specialized mutualism, where morphological and physiological changes in plants are the result of their cultivation and tending.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-02-10
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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