Paleobotany
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Undergraduate
ASM 494 Paleobotany (3 credits)
Graduate
ASM 591 Paleobotany (3 credits)
Are you interested in both archaeology and plants? This two-week field school is an introductory course that offers hands-on training in field and laboratory methods in archaeobotany.
Students in this course will learn how to:
- Conduct flotation of sediments from an archaeological site.
- Collect and process modern plants, seeds and fruits for comparative collections.
- Weigh and sieve light and heavy fractions prior to analysis through the microscope.
- Identify common types of charred macrobotanical remains from a site in the Illinois River valley and conduct basic quantitative analysis of these remains.
- Make inferences about prehistoric foodways and paleoenvironments.
Instructor: Gayle J. Fritz, Washington University in St. Louis
