“The Secret Past Life of Plants”: Paleoethnobotany in British Columbia
Palaeoethnobotany is a steadily growing sub-discipline of archaeology in British Columbia. This paper summarizes what we have learned from the study of ancient plant remains in the Coast and Interior of British Columbia. Although plants have been identified in the BC archaeological record for the pa...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/184108 2023-05-15T16:15:32+02:00 “The Secret Past Life of Plants”: Paleoethnobotany in British Columbia Lepofsky, Dana Lyons, Natasha 2013-10-30 application/pdf image/jpeg http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184108 https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184108 eng eng The University of British Columbia http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184108/184172 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184108/187476 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184108/187477 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184108/187478 10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184108.g184172 10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184108.g187476 10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184108.g187477 10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184108.g187478 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/184108 doi:10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184108 BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly; No. 179: Ethnobotany in BC: Autumn 2013; 39-83 0005-2949 10.14288/bcs.v0i179 paleoethnobotany British Columbia plants First Nations ethnobotany aboriginal culture archaeology info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2013 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i179.184108 https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i179 2023-01-04T07:47:30Z Palaeoethnobotany is a steadily growing sub-discipline of archaeology in British Columbia. This paper summarizes what we have learned from the study of ancient plant remains in the Coast and Interior of British Columbia. Although plants have been identified in the BC archaeological record for the past half century, systematic recovery of plant remains via flotation truly began in the 1980s. We refer to the ‘secret past life of plants’ because archaeology and the wider discipline of anthropology have been slow to recognize the major import of plants to ancient and historic First Nations cultures in the Pacific Northwest, including the active management of plants from the stand to landscape level by these communities. In this paper, we discuss the history of this sub-discipline, the interpretation of the BC archaeobotanical record, and the impact that the growing corpus of data is making to our collective knowledge of plant production and cultivation in this region. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) Pacific |
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Palaeoethnobotany is a steadily growing sub-discipline of archaeology in British Columbia. This paper summarizes what we have learned from the study of ancient plant remains in the Coast and Interior of British Columbia. Although plants have been identified in the BC archaeological record for the past half century, systematic recovery of plant remains via flotation truly began in the 1980s. We refer to the ‘secret past life of plants’ because archaeology and the wider discipline of anthropology have been slow to recognize the major import of plants to ancient and historic First Nations cultures in the Pacific Northwest, including the active management of plants from the stand to landscape level by these communities. In this paper, we discuss the history of this sub-discipline, the interpretation of the BC archaeobotanical record, and the impact that the growing corpus of data is making to our collective knowledge of plant production and cultivation in this region. |
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