Few if any of us working with archaeological plant remains 30 years ago dreamed that a chenopod could by now have achieved Supergrain status in the popular food world. Back then, North American chenopod was considered a lowly...
One of the indigenous staple crops of Andean South America is the pseudocereal quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.). While it was traditionally placed in its own family Chenopodiaceae, recent genetic work located it within the...
Paleoethnobotany or archaeobotany, simply defined as the study of plant remains from archaeological sites, has become a central component of archaeological practice across the globe. Not only are its methods for the recovery...
Sayre, Matthew P., and Maria C. Bruno, eds. "Social Perspectives on Ancient Lives From Paleoethnobotanical Data." Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2017., Maria Bruno is a professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at Dickinson...