Paleoethnobotany: Seeds of Survival

What is paleoethnobotany? In her presentation at PEEC, Pamela McBride will talk about how we retrieve plant material from archaeological sites, what plants are most frequently identified, and how were they used in the past? In this insightful presentation, McBride will highlight several sites with unusual finds. 

Ms. McBride graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1990 with a BS in Anthropology and has been doing archaeobotanical analysis since 1988. She has worked in the Alentejo of Portugal on an Islamic period site and in all the Four Corners states of the Southwest. She has had her own consulting business since 1994 and has worked at the Museum of New Mexico, Office of Archaeological Studies as a paleoethnobotanist since 1995 and is currently the director of the Paleoethnobotany Lab at OAS. 

No advance registration is required for this program.

This is a presentation from the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies Outreach.