ABSTRACT
Chapter 10 reviews how paleoethnobotanists draw convincing inferences on past plant–people interrelationships from archaeobotanical data and use those insights to investigate ancient lifeways. Topics discussed include the taxonomic level of identifications; how understanding deposition, preservation, and context enhance interpretation; sampling and interpretation; qualitative and quantitative approaches to interpretation; and insights that can be gained into past plant–people interrelationships when research questions are approached from different scales of analysis (individual, group, and landscape scale).
