Previous semester readings |
Fall 2023
Sept 1 - Wendy Applequist - Mikael Larsson and Brenda Foley (2023) "The king's spice cabinet - Plant remains from Gribshunden, a 15th century royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea" PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281010
Sept 8 - Xinyi Liu - Sood et al (2015) "Barnyard millet – a potential food and feed crop of future" Plant Breeding, 134, 135–147
Sept 15 - Kate Farley - article pre-publication
Sept 22 - Megan Belcher - Belcher, Williams and Mueller (2023) "Turning Over a New Leaf: Experimental Investigations into the Role of Developmental Plasticity in the Domestication of Goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) in Eastern North America" American Antiquity (2023), 1–16 doi:10.1017/aaq.2023.54
Sept 29 - Ashley Glenn - Cavanaugh, Jillian R. (2023) "Authenticity and it's perils: who is left out when food is 'authentic'?"
Gastronomica (2023) 23 (1): 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.1.28
with supplemental intro: Crossland-Marr, L., and Krause, E. (2023) "Theorizing Authenticity: Introduction to the Special Section" Gastronomica (2023) 23 (1): 5–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.1.5
Oct 6 - Gayle Fritz - Helen Anne Curry (2023) "The Cornbelt's last open pollinated corn: agricultural extension
and the origins of the hybrid corn seed industry" Plants People Planet. 2023;1–14
for background read:
Edgar Anderson "The Sources of Effective Germ-Plasm in Hybrid Maize" Annals
of the Missouri Botanical Garden , Oct., 1944, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Oct., 1944), pp. 355-361
Oct 13 NO MEETING
Oct 20 - Robbie Hart and Jasmine Zenderleng - Article pre-publication
Oct 27 - Matthew Knisley - Tim Denham and Mark Donohue (2023) "Putting the Dark Emu debate into context" Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 58 (2023): 275–295 DOI: 10.1002/arco.5302
Nov 3 - Natalie Konig - Daniela Sclavo (2023) "Framing the Traditional: Counterrevolution and Gender in Mexican Ethnobotanical Research Through the 1970s and 1980s" Journal of Ethnobiology 2023, Vol. 43(3) 262–273
Nov 10 - Charlie Miksicek
Nov 17 - Kim Kleinman - Mazina'igan: A Chronicle of the Lake Superior Ojibwe, Fall 2023, Wang, Y-M. et al (2005) "Extensive de Novo Genomic Variation in Rice Induced by Introgression From Wild Rice (Zizania latifolia Griseb.)" Genetics 170: 1945–1956
Nov 24 NO MEETING
Dec 1 - Jan Salick - Slipp, N. and M. Coughlin. "The Cultures of Seaweed:
A Singularly Marine and Fabulous Produce". New Bedford Whaling Museum
Dec 8 - Molly Carney - N. Lyons et al. 2023. "How can Archaeobotany be put into Service of Katzie Food Sovereignty?" BC Studies No 218.
Spring 2023
Jan 27 Melissa Ritchey - Brock, Ritchey, and Olsen (2022) "Molecular and archaeological evidence on the geographical origin of domestication for Camelina sativa" American Journal of Botany 2002; 109: 1177-1190.
Feb 3 Christina Youngpeter - Balick et al (2022) "Weather magic as environmental knowledge in southern Vanuatu" Journal of Ethnobiology, 42(4): 383-399.
Feb 10 Katherine Benza - Bautista-Gonzalez et al (2022) "Traditional knowledge of medicinal mushrooms and lichens of Yuman peoples in Northern Mexico" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 18:52 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00550-8
Feb 17 Alayna Mickles - Joseph L and Turner NJ (2020) “The Old Foods Are the New Foods!: Erosion and Revitalization of Indigenous Food Systems in Northwestern North America". Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 4:596237. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.596237
Feb 24 Emily Talkow - Rawat, Y.S., and Tekleyohannes, A.T. (2023) "Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Products Industry Development in Ethiopia" International Forestry Review, 23(2) : 197-218
Mar 3 Lily Goldberg: "Amazonian forest peoples’ perceptions of malaria on the Upper Rio Negro, Brazil,
are shaped by both local and scientific knowledge" Journal of Ethnobiology, 42(3): 1-18
Mar 10 Cheyenne Anderson - Dorison (2022) "Ancient Agriculture on Lava Flows: Using LiDAR and Soil Science to Reassess Pre-Hispanic Farming on Mapais Landforms in West Mexico."
Mar 17 Spring Break - no meeting
Mar 24 Wilson Tryon: Landor-Yamagata et al (2018) "Urban Foraging in Berlin: People, Plants and Practices within the Metropolitan Green Infrastructure" Sustainability 2018, 10(6), 1873
Mar 31 Preston Simpson: Santoro et al. "Evolutionary ethnobiology and cultural evolution: opportunities for research and dialog" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2018) 14:1 DOI 10.1186/s13002-017-0199-y
Pop-up journal club, Tuesday April 4: Armstrong et al. 2022, "Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land usen Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest" Journal of Archaeological Science, 142, 105611.
Apr 7 Jacob Tabs - Ouango et al (2022) "Indigenous knowledge system associated with the uses of insects for therapeutic or medicinal purposes in two main provinces of Burkina Faso, West Africa" J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine 18, 50 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00547-3
Apr 14 Matt Abel / Kate Farley - Murphy, Robert F., and Julian H. Steward. "Tappers and trappers: Parallel process in acculturation." Economic Development and Cultural Change 4.4 (1956): 335-355
Apr 21 Natalie Mueller (visitors Liz Horton and Everett Bandy) - Carney M, et al "Northwest Native Plants: A Digital Space for Paleoethnobotanical Knowledges and Biocultural Heritage". Heritage. 2022; 5(1):297-310. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage5010016
Apr 28 Matt Abel defense
Fall 2022
Sep 9 - Emily Warschefsky - Grizzly Bears and Human communities: with this Science article, about this Nature and Society paper.
September 16 - Gayle Fritz - Nabhan et al. Comparing Wild and Cultivated Food Plant Richness Between the Arid American and the Mesoamerican Centers of Diversity, as Means to Advance Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Face of Climate Change. Front. Sustain. Food Syst., 20 June 2022 Sec. Crop Biology and Sustainability https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.840619 Supplementary material: Table 1, Table 2. Table 3. Table 4. Table 5
September 23 - Charlie Miksicek - Khoury et al (2022) "Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity"New Phytologist (2022) 233: 84–118 doi: 10.1111/nph.17733
September 30 - Grace Ward - Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Kendal Jackson, and Jaime A. Rogers. 2022 “Let Us All Enjoy the Fish”: Alternative Pathways and Contingent Histories of Collective Action and Governance Among Maritime Societies of the Western Peninsular Coast of Florida, USA, 100–1600 CE. Frontiers in Political Science 4: 804084.
October 7 - Christina Youngpeter - Vieira da Cunha Avila et al (2022) "Adaptations of Pre-Columbian manioc storage
techniques as strategies to adapt to extreme climatic events in Amazonian floodplains"
Human Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-022-00357-x
October 14 - Wendy Applequist - Brinckmann et al (2021) "A New Global Estimation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species in Commercial Cultivation and Their Conservation Status" Economic Botany, 2021, pp. 1–15
October 21 - Jasmine Zenderland - Racevska et al (2022) "People, lemurs, and utilitarian plants of the littoral forests in southeast Madagascar" International Journal of Primatology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00319-6
October 28 - Jacob Dodd - Brenner et al (2010) "Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Understand the Diversity and Abundance of Culturally Important Trees" Journal of Ethnobiology 41(2): 209–228
November 4 - Kate Farley - Janelle Marie Baker (2020): "Do Berries Listen? Berries as Indicators, Ancestors, and Agents in Canada's Oil Sands Region", Ethnos, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2020.1765829
November 11 - Natalie Mueller - Fraser et al (2022) "Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas" Nature Communications (2022) 13:3940 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31595-8 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications
November 18 - Jan Salick - Sardos J, Breton C, Perrier X, Van den Houwe I, Carpentier S, Paofa J, Rouard M and Roux N (2022) Hybridization, missing wild ancestors and the domestication of cultivated diploid bananas. Front. Plant Sci. 13:969220. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.969220 with supplementary NYTimes article here
December 2 - James Ojacastro - Frederick, Jennie (2000) "Drawing with mulberry" in Hand Papermaking Summer 2000 issue, and Frederick, Jennie (2004) "Lacandon Maya bark cloth: Hu'un" in Hand Papermaking, Winter 2004 issue
December 9 - Robbie Hart - Peter Wyse Jackson (2022) "Hawthorn in Ireland: a rich heritage of folklore, fact, and fantasy" Chapter 8 ofThe Cultural Value of Trees: folk value and biocultural conservation. Jeffrey Wall, ed. Routledge Earthscan: London and New York.
Spring 2022:
January 21: Robbie Hart, Harris, Jessica (2011) Introduction. High on the Hog: a culinary journey from Africa to America. New York, NY: Bloomsbury.
January 28: Ashley Glenn: Soukand et al (2021) "The Trauma of No-choice: Wild food ethnobotany in Yaghnobi and Tajik villages, Varzob Valley, Tajikistan" Genet Resour Crop Evol. 68:3399-3411.
February 4: Natalie Mueller: Germonpré et al. (2021) "Mothering the orphaned pup: the beginning of a domestication process in the Upper Paleolithic." Human Ecology, 49:677-689.
February 11: Melissa Ritchey - Ritchey et al, (2022) "The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size" World Archaeology DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2022.2030792
February 18: Emily Warschefsky - Matthews, P.J. and Ghanem, M.E. (2021)"Perception gaps that may explain the status of taro (Colocasia esculenta) as an 'orphan crop'" Plants, People, Planet. 3:99-112.
February 25: Grace Ward - Rabinow, Sophie A. 2021 Ethnohistoric Accounts as Valuable Resources for Deciphering Commensal Relationships of Pre-Contact Caribbean Agouti (Dasyproctidae: Dasyprocta). Journal of Ethnobiology 41(4):481-498.
March 4: Charlie Miksicek - McBride et al 2020 "Exchange of medicinal plant information in California missions" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 16:35.
March 11: Christopher Harper - Koungoulos, Loukas (2021) "Domestication through dingo eyes: an Australian perspective on human-canid interactions leading to the earliest dogs" Human Ecology 49:691-705 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00262-9
March 25: James Ojacastro - Buckridge, Steeve O. (2016) African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: the construction of race, class, and gender. Chapter 2
April 8: Wendy Applequist - Bauer, Brittany (2020) "Diet of the poor in Roman Italy: an exploration of wild cultivated plants as an essential dietary component" EXARC Journal Issue 2020/2 https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10505
April 15: Megan Belcher Bromham et al "There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reduced infection risk" Nature Human Behaviour | VOL 5 | 878 July 2021 | 878–891 | www.nature.com/nathumbehav
April 22: Gayle Fritz - Wade Campbell (2021) Na’nilkadbeena’niltin – Learning from Herding: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Historic Pastoralism on the Navajo Nation, KIVA, 87:3, 295-315, DOI: 10.1080/00231940.2021.1893456
April 29: Xinyi Liu - Talhelm et al (2022) "Large scale psychological differences within China explained by rice versus wheat agriculture" Science Vol 344.
Fall 2021:
Sep 3: Robbie Hart - Camara-Leret and Bascompte (2021) "Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge" PNAS June 15, 2021 118 (24) e2103683118
Sep 10: Natalie Mueller - Wyatt et al. (2021) " The role of anthropogenic dispersal in shaping the distribution and genetic composition of a widespread North American tree species" Ecology and Evolution 00:1-18
Sep 17: Jan Salick - Mc Alvey et al. (2021) "Ethnobiology Phase VI: Decolonizing Institutions, Projects, and Scholarship" Journal of Ethnobiology, 41(2) : 170-191
Sep 24: Charlie Miksicek - Lentz et al (2021) "Environmental DNA reveals arboreal cityscapes at the Ancient Maya Center of Tikal" Nature Scientific Reports 11: 12725.
with supplemental material
Oct 1: Gayle Fritz - Graff, Sarah R. (2020) "Archaeology of Cuisine and Cooking" Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 49:337-54.
and related Knowable Mag article by Carolyn Wilke
Oct 8: Jose Iriarte - Iriarte, J. et al (2020) "The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America" Quaternary Science Reviews 248 (2020) 106582
Oct 22: Emily Warschefsky - Akbar, Ahmed Ali "Inside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing" Eater Magazine Aug 12, 2021
Oct 29: Ashley Glenn - Thwaite, Annie (2020) "What is a ‘witch-bottle’? Assembling the textual evidence from early modern England" Magic Ritual Witch. 2020 ; 15(2): 227–251. doi:10.1353/mrw.2020.0018.
Nov 5: Kate Farley - Evans, J. and Lorimer, J. (2021) "Taste-Shaping-Natures: Making novel miso with charismatic microbes and new Nordic fermenters in Copenhagen" Current Anthropology 62:24.
Nov 12: Megan Belcher - Carney, M. and d'Alpoim Guedes, J. (2020) "Paleoethnobotanical identification criteria for bulbs of the North American Northwest" Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30:555-569
Nov 19: Lorraine Hu - di Lernia et al (2020) "Land-use and cultivation in the etaghas of the Tadrart Acacus (south-west Libya): the dawn of Saharan agriculture?" Antiquity 94(375): 580-600
Dec 3: Natalie Mueller - Perri et al (2021) "Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas" PNAS 118:6.
Dec 10: James Lucas - Hand Papermaking Volume 25 number 1, and supplementary articles here and here
Spring 2021:
January 29 - Emily Warschefsky and Colin Khoury - Colin K. Khoury, et al. (2020) "Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2020, 117 (52) 33351-33357;
Warschefsky, Emily J. and Rieseberg, Loren H. (2021) "Laying the groundwork for crop wild relative conservation in the United States" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (4)
Feb 5 - Charlie Miksicek - Roos et al (2020) "Native American fire management at an ancient wildland-urban interface in the Southwest United States" PNAS 118(4)
With supplementals: Archaeology Southwest Magazine Fall 2016 30(4)
https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/videos and more here and here.
Feb 12 - Wendy Applequist - Łukasz J Łuczaj (2010) "Plant identification credibility in ethnobotany: a closer look at Polish ethnographic studies" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 6:36.
Feb 19 - Jan Salick - Antoinette M. G. A WinklerPrins & Carolina Levis (2021): "Reframing Pre-European Amazonia through an Anthropocene Lens", Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Clement, C.R.; Casas, A.; Parra-Rondinel, F.A.; Levis, C.; Peroni, N.; Hanazaki, N.; Cortés-Zárraga, L.; Rangel-Landa, S.;
Alves, R.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; et al. Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics. Quaternary 2021, 4, 4.
Feb 26 - Gayle Fritz - Dinesh C. Joshi et al (2018) "From zero to hero: the past, present and future of grain amaranth breeding" Theoretical and Applied Genetics 131: 1807-1823. and Karen R. Adams et al (2019) "A bundle of very large, cultigen amaranth (Amaranthus sp.) seeds from Dyck Cliff Dwelling, Arizona" Poster presented at the 2019 Society of Economic Botany Conference.
Mar 5 - Ximena Lemoine - White, Thomas (2020) "Pastoralism after culture: environmental governance and human-animal estrangement at China's ecological frontier" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 27, 30-48
Mar 12 - James Lucas - Hardy, et al. (2020) "Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implication" Sci Rep 10, 4889 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61839-w
Mar 19 - Matt Abel - Walker, Timothy. 2013. The medicines trade in the Portuguese Atlantic World: acquisition and dissemination of healing knowledge from Brazil (c. 1580-1800). Social History of Medicine 26(3):403-431.
On the political epidemiology of the colonial Amazon see pages 86-88 of Cleary, David. 2001. Towards and environmental history of the Amazon: from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Latin American Research Review 36(2): 64-96.
For a discussion of “disturbance pharmacopoeias” in the humid tropics see Voeks, Robert. 2004. Disturbance pharmacopoeias: medicine and myth from the humid tropics. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(4): 868-888.
Mar 26 - Kate Farley - Outland, Katrina (2018) "Trapped in the Goddess's mousetrap: equitable solutions for poverty poaching of Venus Flytraps" Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 8(2)
Apr 2 - Yufeng Sun - Fuller, D. et al (2021) "Transition from wild to domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) revealed in ceramic temper at Three Middle Holocene sites in northern Mali" Afr Archaeol Rev 16 March 2021.
Apr 9 - Mana Yahashi Tang Shanti Morell-Hart's (2020) "Plant Foodstuffs of the Ancient Maya: Agents and Matter, Medium and Message." In Her Cup for Sweet Cacao: Food in Ancient Maya Society, edited by Traci Ardren, pp.124-60. UT Press.
Apr 16 - Lorraine Hu - Thembi Russell and Faye Lander (2021) "'The bees are our sheep': the role of honey and fat in the transition to livestock keeping during the last two thousands years in southernmost Africa" Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50:3, 318-342, DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2015.1051793
Apr 23 - Eric Conners - Zanella et al. (2019) "Dosage analysis of the 7q11.23 Williams region identifies BAZ1B as a major human gene patterning the modern human face and underlying self-domestication" Sci Adv. 5: eeaw7908.
with supplemental commentary by Wilkins, Adam S. (2020) "A Molecular Investigation of Human Self-Domestication" Trends in Genetics, April 2020, Vol. 36, No. 4
Apr 30 - Grace Ward - Ellis, Erle C., Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nicole Boivin, Sandra Díaz, Dorian Q. Fuller, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Jed O. Kaplan, Naomi Kingston, Harvey Locke, Crystal N. H. McMichael, Darren Ranco, Torben C. Rick, M. Rebecca Shaw, Lucas Stephens, Jens-Christian Svenning, and James E. M. Watson (2021) "People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(17):e2023483118
Fall 2020:
August 14th: Matthew Abel - Neves, Eduardo and Michael Heckenberger. 2019. “The call of the wild: rethinking food production in Ancient Amazonia.” Annual Review of Anthropology 48: 371-388.
Optional additional reading: Neves, Eduardo. 2013. “Was agriculture a key productive activity in pre-colonial Amazonia? The stable productive basis for social equality in the Central Amazon.” Human-Environment Interactions: current and future directions, eds. E.S. Brondízio and E.F. Moran. Springer, pp. 371-388.
August 21: Charlie Miksicek- Merida Ponce et al. (2019) "Ethnomycological knowledge among Kaqchikel, indigenous Maya people of Guatemalan Highlands" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 15:3.
August 28: Jan Salick-Vandebroek, et al (2020) "Reshaping the Future of Ethnobiology Research after the COVID-19 Pandemic" Nature Plants Vol. 6, pp. 723-730.
September 4: Natalie Mueller- Lord et al. (2020) "The history of the farm foxes undermines the animal domestication syndrome." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35(2): 125-136.
September 11- Wendy Applequist - Wadley et al (2020) "Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa" Science 369, pp. 863-866.
September 18- Kate Farley- Myers, Natasha (2015) "Conversations on Plant Sensing: notes from the field" NatureCulture 03: pp. 35-66.
September 25- Rebecca Dudley - Miles, Christopher (2019) "The combine will tell the truth: On precision agriculture and algorithmic rationality" Big Data & Society, Jan-June 2019 pp. 1-12
October 2: Grace Ward- Ellen, Roy (2017) Rethinking the Relationship between Studies of Ethnobiological Knowledge and the Evolution of Human Cultural Cognition. In Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology edited by Power, Finnegan and Callan, p. 59-83. Methodology and History in Anthropology Vol. 30. Berghahn Books, Oxford
October 9: Emily Warchefsky- Denham, T. et al (2020) "The domestication syndrome in vegetatively propagated field crops". Annals of Botany 125: 581-597.
October 16: Yufeng Sun- Gantuya et al (2019) " 'A herder's duty is to think': landscape partitioning and folk habitats of Mongolian herders in a mountain forest steppe (Khuvsugul-Murun region)" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 15:54.
October 23: Gayle Fritz - Paris, E. et al (2020) "The origins of Maya stingless beekeeping" Journal of Ethnobiology, 40(3): 386-405. With supplemental link to the Shutterbee project here.
November 6: James Lucas - Bennett, B. (2016) " The Sound of Trees: wood selection in guitars and other chordophones." Economic Botany, 70(1) pp. 49-63.
November 13: Megan Belcher - Capparelli, P. (2015). The contribution of ethnobotany and experimental archaeology to interpretation of ancient food processing: methodological proposals based on the discussion of several case studies on Prosopis spp., Chenopodium spp. and Cucurbita spp. from Argentina. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24(1), 151–163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-014-0497-4
November 20: Kim Kleinman - Di Lu, (2020) "Local food and transnational science: new boundary issues of the caterpillar fungus in Republican China." Osiris 35:249-267.
and Spary, EC and Zilberstein, A. (2020) "On the virtues of historical entomophagy" Osiris 35: 1-19.
December 4: Xinyi Liu: Stevens, C. et al (2020) "A model for the domestication of Panicum miliaceum (common, proso or broomcorn millet) in China" Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00804-z
December 11: Steven Angtuaco - Haas, Randall et al. (2020) "Female Hunters of the Early Americas," Science Advances 6: 1-10
Summer 2020:
1 May: Natalie Mueller - Morrissey, Robert M. (2019) "Climate, Ecology, and History in North America's Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands," Past and Present no. 245. Jan Salick adds: Carla Staver, A., et al. (2011) "The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as aternative biome states" Science 334(230).
8 May: Gayle Fritz - White, A.J, et al (2020) "After Cahokia: Indigenous repopulation and depopulation of the Horseshoe Lake Watershed AD 1400-1900" American Antiquity 85(2) pp. 263-278.
15 May: Mana Hayashi Tang - Shirane, Haruo (2017) Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature and the Arts, In Rethinking Nature in Japan: From Tradition to Modernity, Silvia Vesco Ruperti and Carolina Negri, eds., pp. 9-25
St. Louis Osuwa Taiko's 'Sakura Sakura': https://www.facebook.com/StLouisTaiko/videos/2684915378462209/
22 May: Charlie Miksicek - Spengler, Robert (2020) "Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication".Trends in Plant Science, April 2020, Vol. 25, No. 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2020.01.005
29 May: Xinyi Liu - Chapter 1 of Scott, James C. (2017) Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States. New Haven: Yale University Press.
5 June: Rebecca Dudley - Dove, Michael R. (2019) "Plants, Politics, and the Imagination over the Past 500 Years in the Indo-Malay Region" Current Anthropology 60(20) August 2019
12 June: Ximena Lemoine: Drennan, R.D. et al. (2020) "Environmental risk buffering in Chinese Neolithic villages: Impacts on community structure in the Central Plains and the Western Liao Valley" Archeological Research in Asia 21.
19 June: Melissa Ritchey - Fassil Kebebew, Yemana Tsehaye, and Tom McNeilly (2001), "Morphological and farmers cognitive diversity of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. POACEAE) at Bale and North Shewa of Ethiopia." Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 00:1-15.
26 June: Grace Ward - Arponen, V. P. J., Walter Dörfler, Ingo Feeser, Sonja Grimm, Daniel Groß, Martin Hinz, Daniel Knitter, Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Konrad Ott, and Artur Ribeiro (2019) Environmental determinism and archaeology. Understanding and evaluating determinism in research design. Archaeological Dialogues 26(01):1–9
10 July: Doug Ladd; Indigenous Fire Management in the cerrado of Brazil.
17 July: James Lucas; A tale of textiles: Genetic characterization of historical paper mulberry barkcloth from Oceania.
24 July: Cintia Collins - "Plant Knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648): Retentions of Seventeenth Century Plant use in Brazil," by Alcantara-Rodriguez et al. 2019.
31 July: Ashley Glenn - Nosrat, Samin (ed.) (2019) Best American Food Writing 2019. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
7 August: Wendy Applequist - Luo, H. et al. (2020) Can Chinese Medicine Be Used for Prevention of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Chinese Journal of Integrated Medicine. 26(4) 243-250. (2) Herbal Formula Chart for Covid-19 (3) Ploberger, Florian (2020) "Covid-19 From the Perspective of TCM Physicians in German-Speaking Countries" Cultural Anthropology June 23, 2020 (4) Chen, JK et al (2020) How COVID-19 (2019-nCOV) is Currently Treated in China with TCM. The Lotus Institute of Integrated Medicine.
Spring 2020:
Jan 17 - Robbie Hart - Zenderland et al. 2019 "The Use of Use Value: Quantifying Importance in Ethnobotany" Economic Botany 73: 293-303.
Jan 24 - Ashley Glenn - Jones, Bradley M. (2017) "Producing Heritage: Politics, Patrimony, Palatability in the Reinvention of Lowcountry Cuisine" Food, Culture & Society 20:2, 217-236.
Jan 31 - Charlie Miksicek - Hodgson, W.C., Salywon, A.M., and Doelle, W.H. (2018) Hohokam Lost Crop Found: A New Agave (Agavaceae) Species Only Known from Large-scale pre-Columbian Agricultural Fields in Southern Arizona. Systematic Botany 43(3): 734-740
with supplemental PowerPoint (and great pics) by Wendy Hodgson.
Feb 7 - Ximena Lemoine - Borgerson et al. (2019). Food Insecurity and the Unsustainable Hunting of Wildlife in a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 3: 99.
Feb 14 - Rebecca Dudley - introduction to How Forests Think (Eduardo Kohn, 2013).
Feb 21 - Kelsey Nordine - Halwas and Worley 2019 "Incorporating Chenopodium berlandieri into a Season Subsistence Pattern: Implications of Biological Traits for Cultural Choices" (Journal of Ethnobiology 39: 510-529).
Feb 28 - Grace Ward - Ross et al. 2014. The Ecological Side of an Ethnobotanical Coin: Legacies in Historically Managed Trees. American Journal of Botany 101: 1618–1630.
Mar 6 - James Lucas - Brennan et al (2013) Jamaican Lace Bark: its history and uncertain future. Textile History 44(2): 235-253. with extra paper from Pearman, G. and Prendergast, H.D.V. (2000) Items from the Lacebark Tree [Lagetta Lagetto (W. Wright) Nash: Thymelaeaceae] from the Caribbean. Economic Botany 54(1): pp. 4-6.
Mar 27 - Melissa Ritchey - Biró et al. 2019 "Reviewing historical traditional knowledge for innovative conservation management: A re-evaluation of wetland grazing" and Ingvason 1969 "The golden sedges of Iceland".
Apr 3 - Kunsang Lama - "The demise of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region due to climate change and overharvesting" (Hopping, Chignell and Lamblin, 2018, PNAS). and The Artificial Cultivation of Medicinal Caterpillar Fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Ascomycetes): A Review Kai Yue, Meng Ye, Xiao Lin, & Zuji Zhou. International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, 15(5): 425–434 (2013)
Apr 10 - Mana Hayashi Tang 'Nationality Medicines in China: Institutional Rationality and Healing Charisma', Lili Lai and Judith Farquhar Comparative Studies in Society and History 57: 2 April 2015 , pp. 381-406.
Apr 17 - Wendy Applequist "Origins and insights into the historic Judean date palm based on genetic analysis of germinated ancient seeds and morphometric studies" (Sallon et al., Sci. Adv. 2020; 6 : eaax0384 5 February 2020).
Apr 24 - Cintia Collins Clarke, L. W., Li, L., Jenerette, G. D., & Yu, Z. (2014). Drivers of plant biodiversity and ecosystem service production in home gardens across the Beijing municipality of China. Urban Ecosystems, 17(3), 741-760.
Fall 2019:
Aug 30 - Ashley Glenn - Nicklas Neuman (2019) On the engagement with social theory in food studies: cultural symbols and social practices, Food, Culture & Society, 22:1, 78-94, DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2018.1547069.
Sep 6 - Natalie Mueller - Laura Ogden (2018) The Beaver Diaspora: A Thought Experiment. Environmental Humanities, 10:1, 63-85.
Sep 13 - Grace Ward - Silcock, J.L. (2018) Aboriginal translocations: the intentional propagation and dispersal of plants in Aboriginal Australia. Journal of Ethnobiology 38(3): 390-405.
Sep 20 - Andrew Townesmith - Ellstrad, Norman C. et al (2010) Crops gone wild: evolution of weeds and invasives from domesticated ancestors, Evolutionary Applications 3(2010) 494-504.
Sep 27 - James Lucas - Gaoue et al, (2017) Theories and hypotheses in ethnobotany, Economic Botany 7(3) p. 269-287.
Oct 4 - Charlie Miksice - Armstong C.G. and Brown C. (2019) Frontiers are frontlines: ethnobotanical science against ongoing colonialism. Journal of Ethnobiology 39(1): 14-31. With supplemental article - Golan, J. et al (2019) Intellectual property rights and ethnobiology: an update on Posey's call to action. Journal of Ethnobiology 39(1): 90-109.
Oct 11 - Mana Hayashi Tang - Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch (2018) Introduction, Multispecies Archaeology, London and New York: Routledge, pp.1-7.
Oct 18 - Gayle Fritz - Andrew Gillreath-Brown (2019) Creation to Rhythm: an ethnographic and archaeological survey of turtle shell rattles and spirituality in the United States. Journal of Ethnobiology 39(3): 425-444.
Oct 25 - Kelsey Nordine - Kassabaum (2019) A Method for Conceptualizing and Classifying Feasting. American Antiquity 84(4), 2019, pp. 610–631
Nov 1 - Xinyi Liu - Sivin, N (2005) Why the scientific revolution did not take place in China - or didn't it? Chinese Science, 1982, 5: 45-66
Nov 8 - Ximena Lemoine - Mysterud, Atle (2010) Still walking on the wild side? Management actions as steps towards 'semi-domestication' of hunted ungulates, Journal of Applied Ecology, 47: 920-925.
Nov 15 - Wendy Applequist - El-Gharbaouia et al. (2017). Comparison of Lamiaceae medicinal uses in eastern Morocco and eastern Andalusia and in Ibn al-Baytar's Compendium of Simple Medicaments (13th century CE). Journal of Ethnopharmacology 202: 208-224. also discussed: Saslis-Lagoudakis et al. (2014) 'The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal’ (Proceedings of the Royal Society - B) read online.
Nov 22 - Catrina Adams - "The Contextual Cat: Human–Animal Relations and Social Meaning in Anglo-Saxon England". Kristopher Poole, J Archaeol Method Theory 2015. 22:857–882 DOI 10.1007/s10816-014-9208-9.
Dec 6 - Robbie Hart - "Indigenous communities win historic right to rooibos tea profits" (Nordling 2019, Nature), and the two ethnobotanical studies it refers to, "Traditional knowledge associated with Rooibos and honeybush" (SA Department of Environmental Affairs, 2015) [note executive summary (pp. i-iii) and conclusions (pp. 49-51 ] and Rooibos: an ethnographic perspective" (Gorelik, 2017) [note introduction (pp. 3-6) and final statement (48-49].
Spring 2018
Jan 18 - Natalie Mueller on Herding Ecologies and Ongoing Plant Domestication Processes in the Americas
Jan 25 - Jan Salick on place names: 1) What's in a Name: Southern Paiute place names as keys to landscape perception (Chapter 11 of Main Johnson and Hunn Landscape Ethnoecology); supplementary reading 2) An Atlas in the Mind (Chapter 4 of Harrison When Languages Die).
Feb 1 - Doug Ladd on Ancient Players, New Game: The Origins of Our Tallgrass Prairies
Feb 8 - Ashley Glenn Foodmaps: tracing boundaries of 'home' through food relations.
Feb 15 - Jessie Griffard "Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education" and a short excerpt from Vanilla Landscapes: Meaning, Memory, and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar.
Feb 22 - James Lucas Paper Plants in the Tibetan World: A Preliminary Study (Boesi 2016), with Notes on "Coffee" from the Kentucky Coffeetree (Spaeth and Thieret 2004) as supplementary.
Mar 1 - Grace Ward on Peanuts and Power in the Andes: The Social Archaeology of Plant Remains from the Virú Valley, Peru. Masur, Millaire, and Blake 2018.
Mar 8 - Robbie Hart Human diets drive range expansion of megafauna-dispersed fruit species, Zonneveld et al. 2018 PNAS.
Mar 15 - WUSTL Spring Break, no meeting
Mar 22 - Wendy Applequist Albuquerque et al. 2018. Social-Ecological Theory of Maximization: Basic Concepts and Two Initial Models. Biological Theory 10.1007/s13752-019-00316-8.
Mar 29 - Gayle Fritz Winchell et al. 2017. Evidence for Sorghum Domestication in Fourth Millennium BC Easter Sudan. Current Anthropology 58.
Apr 5 - Laura Klein - Danforth Center Tour
Apr 12 - Andrew Townesmith recent article from the Post Dispatch on corncob pipes
Apr 19 - Xinyi Liu Liu et al. 'From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping: Mapping food globalisation in prehistory'. Quaternary Science Reviews 2019
Fall 2018:
Dec 7 - Carolina Romero - Henderson, JS and Joyce, RA (2006) Brewing Distinction: the development of cacao beverages in formative Mesoamerica from Chocolate in Mesoamerica: a cultural history of Cacao, CL McNeil, ed. University Press of Florida: 2006.
Nov 30 - Kelsey Nordine - Tushingham et al, Biomolecular archaeology reveals ancient origins of indigenous tobacco smoking in North American Plateau. PNAS 115(46) Nov 13, 2018.
Nov 23 - thanksgiving break, no meeting
Nov 16 - Wendy Applequist - Cagnato, C. (2018) Shedding light on the nightshades (Solanaceae) used by the Ancient Maya: a review of existing data, and new archeobotanical (macro- and microbotanical) evidence from archeological sites in Guatemala. Economic Botany 72(2) pp 180-195.
Nov 2 - Ximena Lemoine - Zeder MA. 2017. Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis. Interface Focus 7: 20160133.
Oct 26 - Mana Hayashi Tang - Bruno, Maria C., Milton Pinto, and Wilfredo Rojas. 2018. Identifying Domesticated and Wild Kañawa (Chenopodium pallidicaule) in the Archeobotanical Record of the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. Economic Botany 72(2): 137-149.
Oct 19 - Laura Klein - Smith et al 2018: "The Last Mile: Using Local Knowledge to Identify Barriers to Sustainable Grain Legume Production." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6.
Oct 12 - David Henderson - Schrader et al. North American Entomophagy. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 2: 111-120 (2016), with Edible Insects: Future prospects for food and feed security FAO 2013 as supplementary. See also our readings from 4/13 last semester. Meeting will be on the 2nd floor conference room.
Oct 5 - Eric Feltz - Pauli et al, Farmers' knowledge and the use of soil fauna in agriculture: a world review, Ecology and Society 21(3) Sept 2016.
Sept 28 - Ashley Glenn - Grey, S. and Newman, L. Beyond culinary colonialism; indigenous food sovereignty, liberal multiculturalism, and the control of gastronomic capital, Agriculture and Human Values (2018) 35:717-730.
Sept 21 - (Grace Ward) Lovell et al.,Temperate agroforestry research: considering multifunctional woody polycultures and the design of long-term field trials, Agroforest Syst 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10457-017-0087-4 ; with supplemental article Day, G., The Indian as an Ecological Factor in the Northeastern Forest, Ecology, 34(2) 1953, pp.329-346.
Sept 14 - (James Lucas) López Binnqüist, Quintanar-Isaías and Vander Meere (2012) "Mexican Bark Paper: Evidence of History of Tree Species Used and Their Fiber Characteristics" Economic Botany 66: 138-148.
Sept 7 - (Gayle Fritz) Robert N. Spengler, Farhod Maksudov, Elissa Bullion, Ann Merkle, Taylor Hermes, Michael Frachetti. Arboreal crops on the medieval Silk Road: Archaeobotanical studies at Tashbulak. PLOS ONE, 2018; 13 (8); supplement here, article about the paper here.
August 31 - (Xinyi Liu) Liu X, Lister DL, Zhao Z, Petrie CA, Zeng X, Jones PJ, et al. (2017) Journey to the east: Diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China. PLoS ONE 12(11).
Spring 2018:
1 19 - (Jan Salick and Andrew Townesmith) – Plants for People website
1 26 - (Mana Hayashi Tang) Bestel et al 2017 "Wild plant use and multi-cropping at the early Neolithic Zhuzhai site in the middle Yellow River region, China".
2 2 - (Ximena Leomine) on Stillfried et al. 2017, "Do cities represent sources, sinks or isolated islands for urban wild boar population structure?".
2 9 - (Kelsey Nordine) on Carmody et al. 2018, "Residue analysis of smoking pipe fragments from the Feltus archaeological site, Southeastern North America".
2 16 - (Grace Ward) on Hilbert et al. 2017 Evidence for mid-Holocene rice domestication in the Americas. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(11):1693-1698. Here's the article and here's the supplementary info.
2 23 - (Gregory Fields) on "Plant Songs and Teachings of the Straits and Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest." (Medicine Songs of the Four Seasons from the Straits and Coast Salish of Washington State and British Columbia," with audio samples available on the Folkways site)
3 2 - (James Lucas) on Guanitz et al. 2018 "Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski's horses"
3 9 - (Eric Feltz) on Campbell 2009 "Ethnoecology of the Ozark Highlands' agricultural encounter" and Campbell 2012 "Open-pollinated seed exchange: renewed Ozark tradition as agricultural biodiversity conservation".
3 23 - (Robbie Hart) on Saslis-Lagoudakis et al. (2014) 'The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal’ (Proceedings of the Royal Society - B). Available in HTML or pdf.
3 30 - (Carolina Romero) on Peters et al 2003 "The Life and Times of Bursera glabrifolia in Mexico" (Economic Botany) with Bernal et al 2007 "Eastern Tukanoan names of the Palm Iriartea deltoidea" (Journal of Ethnobiology) as supplementary.
4 6 - (Jessie Griffard) on Radiolab podcast, Smarty Plants, and a chapter from the book, Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal.
4 13 - (Eva Colberg) on Shelomi 2015 "Why We Still Don’t Eat Insects: Assessing Entomophagy Promotion Through a Diffusion of Innovations Framework" and van Huis's chapter from Ethnozoology, "Insects as Human Food,".
4 20 - (Matt Abel) on Açai, with Brondízio, E.S., Safar, C.A. & Siqueira, A.D. 2002. The Urban Market of Açaí Fruit and Rural Land Use Change. Urban Ecosystems 6:67-97 as the main reading and Brondízio, Eduardo. 2008. "Palm ethnobotany and Caboclo material culture." In The Amazonian Caboclo and the Açaí Palm: forest farmers in the global market, pp. 96-117. New York Botanical Garden Press as supplementary.
4 27 – (Gayle Fritz) on "To Know Them is to Love Them," by Eugene Hunn and the chapter reading "Everyone Loves Birds" by William Thomas. We'll meet in the 1st floor meeting room of the Monsanto Research Center.
Fall 2017:
9 1 - (Gayle Fritz) Mueller et al. Nature Plants Growing Lost Crops
9 8 - (Kelsey Nordine) Genome Sequence of a 5,310-Year-Old Maize Cob Ramos-Madrigal et al. Current Biology.
9 15 - (Glenn Stone) Disembedding grain: Golden Rice, the Green Revolution, and heirloom seeds in the Philippines Agriculture and Human Values.
9 22 - (Kate Farley) "Nature's Emporium: The Botanical Drug Trade and the Commons in Southern Appalachia."
9 29 - (Grace Ward) "Crop Population Perspectives on Maize Seed Systems in Mexico," by George A. Dyer and Edward Taylor.
10 6 - (Gary Nabhan) led the discussion regarding The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity by Wilder.
10 20 - (Mana Tang) led the discussion on a chapter from Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
10 27 - (Ashley Glenn) led the discussion on Globalised cuisine, non-national identities and the individual: staging Turkishness in Turkish-speaking restaurants in London Defne Karaosmanoglu Journal of Intercultural Studies.
11 3 - (Andrea Burr) Memory carriers and stewardship of metropolitan landscapes by Andersson and Barthel in Ecological Indicators.
11 10 - (James Lucas) chapter 6 "A Survey of Tibetan Paper", by A. Helman-Wazny in The Archaeology of Tibetan Books. Chapter 7 is included as a supplement.
12 1 - (Robbie Hart) Peñailillo et al. (2016) Sex Distribution of Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) in the Pacific, with Chang et al. (2015) A holistic picture of Austronesian migrations revealed by phylogeography of Pacific paper mulberry a recommended supplementary reading.
12 8 - (Armand Randrianasolo) Ens et al. 2016 in Biodiversity and Conservation "Putting indigenous conservation policy into practice delivers biodiversity and cultural benefits".
Spring 2017:
2 3 - (Ashley Glenn) Johnson 2016 "'Nothing is sweet in my mouth': Food, identity, and religion in African Lisbon" Food and Foodways, 24(3-4): 234-256
2 20 - (Robbie Hart) Ellen 2016 "Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems?" Journal of Ethnobiology, 36(1):10-28.
2 27 - (Gayle Fritz) Kuhnlein 2014 "How Ethnobiology Can Contribute to Food Security" from the Journal of Ethnobiology 34(1) 12-27.
2 24 - (Jan Salick) 'Naxi Cosmology of Mt. Yulong Sacred Sites with Caveats for Conservation.'
3 3 - (Wendy Applequist) Katerere 2014. 'Commercialization of Ethnoveterinary Products'
3 10 - (Grace Ward) Amanda L. Logan 2016 "Why Can't People Feed Themselves?": Archaeology as Alternative Archive of Food Security in Banda, Ghana. American Anthropologist 118(3): 508-524.
3 17 - (Jessie Griffard) Brownell et al. 2013. Science Communication to the General Public and Tabcuhi 2017. In America’s Heartland, Discussing Climate Change Without Saying ‘Climate Change’.
3 24 - (Taryn Pelch) Ethnobotany and Ethnohistorical Sources for Mesoamerica by Robert Bye and Linares.
4 7 - (Mariah Heulsmann) Rock Shelters as Women's Retreats: Understanding Newt Kash.
4 14 - (Matt Abel) Harris 2006. Peasant Riverine Economies and Their Impact in the Lower Amazon. In Human impacts on Amazonia: the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development.
4 21 - (Natalie Mueller) Hodder (2017) Things and the Slow Neolithic: the Middle Eastern Transformation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory: DOI 10.1007/s10816-017-9336-0
4 28 - (Mana Hayashi Tang) Rival (2009) Towards an understanding of the Huaorani ways of knowing and naming plants.
Fall 2016:
12 9 - (Jan Salick) Wittman 2011 Food Sovereignity: a new rights framework for food and nature?
11 18 - (Laura Klein) Grasser et al, (2016) Children as ethnobotanists: methods and local impact of a participatory research project with children on wild plant gathering in the Grosses Walsertal Biosphere Reserve, Austria. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 12:46.
11 11 - (Rainer Bussmann) Bussmann et al, (2016) A comparative ethobotany of Khevsureti, Samtskhe-Javaheti, Tusheti, Svaneti, and Racha-Lechkhumi, Republic of Georgia (Sakartvelo, Caucasus. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 12:43.
11 4 - (Mana Tang) Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. 2015. "5. Open Ticket, Oregon." and "6. War Stories." In The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press. pp.73-94.
10 28 - (Andrew Townesmith) Balding and Williams (2016) , Plant blindness and the implications for plant conservation. Conservation Biology, 00:0 p 1-8, with Wandersee and Schussler (1999) Preventing plant blindness. The American Biology Teacher 61:2, 82+84+86 as a supplemental reading.
10 21 - (Wendy Applequist) Randrianarivony, T. et al, (2016) Value of useful goods and ecosystem services from Angalavelo sacred forest and their relationships with forest conservation. Madagascar Conservation and Development 11:2.
10 7 - (Carolina Romero) Bernal et al. (2013) Botswanan palm basketry among the Wounaan of western Colombia: lessons from an intercontinental technology transfer. Tropical Conservation Science Vol.6 (21):221-229.
9 30 - (Eric Feltz) Solving the Perennial Paradox by Nancy Turner and Sandra Peacock
9 23 - (Grace Ward) Precolonial Plant Conservation along the Northwest Coast of North America.
9 16 - (Jade Richards) Empson (2012) The danger of excess. Social Analysis 56 (1), p. 117-132 and Empson (2011) excerpt from Harnessing Fortune, p. 236-241.
9 9 - (Ashley Glenn) Jasarevic, l. (2015) The thing in a jar. Cultural Anthropology, 30:1.
9 2 - (Gayle Fritz) Crowther et al (2016) Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion. PNAS 113:24, 6635-6640.
Spring 2016:
4 29 - (Laura Klein) Evolution and conservation of clonally-propagated crops
4 22 - (Jessica Griffard) So Little Brain, So Much Mind: Intelligence and Behavior in Non-human Animals
4 15 - (Clarissa Cognato) American plants in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of the archaeological evidence, with supplementary paper
4 8 - (Mana Hayashi Tang) Preface and Chapter 1 from Plant Theory Biopower and Vegetable Life by Jeffrey T. Nealon.
3 25 - Early Humans (Wendy Applequist) Belfer-Cohen and Hovers 1992 "In the Eye of the Beholder: Mousterian and Natufian Burials in the Levant" Current Anthropology 33: 463-471 and Peresani et al. 2011 "Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane Cave 44 ky B.P., Italy " PNAS 108: 3888-3893.
3 11 - Origin of Cultivation (Andrew Townsmith). Snir et al. (2015). The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming. PLOS 10.1371/journal.pone.0131422.
3 4 - Indigenous Fire Management (Eric Feltz). Mistry et al. (2005). Human Ecology 3: 365-386
2 26 - Pre-Columbian Agriculture (Jane Mt. Pleasant). Mt. Pleasant (2015). Early American Studies 13: 374-412.
2 19 - Communicating ethnobiology (Catrina Adams). Brainstorming for 2016 USA Science and Engineering Festival.
2 12 - Farmer seed networks (Natalie Mueller) Coomes et al (2015). Food Policy 56: 41-50.
2 5 - Ecology of religious beliefs (Carlos Botero) Botero et al. (2014) PNAS 111: 16784–16789 & Gavin et al. (2013) BioScience 63: 524–535
1 29 - Chili domestication & pharmacology (Robbie Hart) Lu et al. in BMJ; Kraft et al. PNAS
1 22 - Climate Change Anthropology (Jan Salick) Barnes and Dove eds. (2015) Climate Cultures (Introduction)
Fall 2015:
12 4 (Julie Rub) THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA The Evolution of the Brain and the Determinants of Food Choice, and, for context, Tardif et al (2013) Body Mass Growth in Common Marmosets: Toward a Model of Pediatric Obesity.
11 20 (Jaclyn Boozalis) Fennell et al. "Assessing African medicinal plants for efficacy and safety: pharmacological screening and toxicology" and, for context, Abdullahi "Trends and Challenges of Traditional Medicine in Africa".
11 13 (Carolina Romero) Morueta-Holme et al. "Strong upslope shifts in Chimborazo’s vegetation over two centuries since Humboldt" complemented by González et al.
11 6 (Gayle Fritz): Liebenberg (2006) Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter-Gatherers, critical response by Pickering and Bunn in 2007, and a followup by Liebenberg in 2008.
10 30 (Elissa Bullion): Russell D. Greaves & Karen L. Kramer Hunter-gatherer use of wild plants and domesticates: archaeological implications for mixed economies before agricultural intensification.
10 23 (Kelsey Nordine): Munoz et al. Cahokia’s emergence and decline coincided with shifts of flood frequency on the Mississippi River, Baires et al. Correlation does not equal causation: Questioning the Great Cahokia Flood and Munoz et al. Reply to Baires et al.: Shifts in Mississippi River flood regime remain a contributing factor to Cahokia’s emergence and decline.
10 9 (Eric Feltz) The Role of Ethnobotany and Environmental Perception in the Conservation of Atlantic Forest Fragments in Northeastern Brazil
10 2 (Nate Simon) Sveta Yamin-Pasternak's: The Rotten Renaissance in the Bering Strait: Loving, Loathing, and Washing the Smell of Foods with a (Re)acquired Taste.
9 25 (Robbie Hart) EN Anderson: Origins of Chinese Food: Neolithic Innovations and Early Dynasties, and two chapters from "Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China": Chapter 2 - Chinese prehistory and Chapter 3 - The earliest Chinese dynasties
9 18 (Peter Bernhardt) Amend et al. Local perceptions of Matsutake mushroom management, in NW Yunnan China and Shrestha & Bawa. Trade, harvest, and conservation of caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) in the Himalayas.
9 11 (Andrew Flachs) Kyndt et al. The genome of cultivated sweet potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop and the "somewhat aggressively titled followup" opinion piece: Blancke et al. Fatal attraction: the intuitive appeal of GMO opposition.
9 4 (BrieAnna Langlie) The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest (Clement et al 2015), with New Scientist reporting here.
8 28 (Ashley Glenn) Hardy et al, The importance of dietary carbohydrate in human evolution. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 90:3, Sept 2015. with NPR reporting here.
Spring 2015:
4 24 (Wendy Applequist) Hidayati et al, Ready for phase 5 - current status of ethnobiology in Southeast Asia and Kunwar et al, Medicinal plant dynamics in indigenous medicines in farwest Nepal
4 10 and 17 (Ashley Glenn) Ethnographic video. Khangai Herds. (And various other links based on our discussions: Comanche silent film, Edward Curtis video, Nine Academy, Tibetan Stellera paper making, Search for Ozark ballads, Mezcal's Origin, Human Planet.
4 3 (Andrew Flachs) Seeds of Persistence: Agrobiodiversity in the American Mountain South.
3 27 (Gayle Fritz) Swan and Simons, 2014. An Ethnobotany of Firewood in Osage Big Moon Peyotism.
3 20 (Jessie Griffard) Healthy nature healthy people: ‘contact with nature’ as an upstream health promotion intervention for populations
3 6 (Eric Feltz) McKey et al. 2015 (PNAS) "Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia"
2 27 (Nate Simon) Forest Restoration in a Fog Oasis: Evidence Indicates Need for Cultural Awareness in Constructing the Reference. Balaguer et al. 2001, PLOS 6(8): e23004.
2 20 (BrieAnna Langlie) Yentsch 2013 - Applying Concepts from Historical Archaeology to New England’s Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks.
2 13 (Maris Gillette) Lowenthal (2006) Natural and cultural heritage.
2 6 (Kelsey Nordine) Fuller et al. "Convergent Evolution and Parallelism in Plant Domestication Revealed by an Expanding Archaeological Record"
1 30 (Charlotte Taylor) Tesfaye et al. 2014, ISSR fingerprinting of Coffea arabica throughout Ethiopia reveals high variability in wild, Davis et al. 2012, The Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Arabica Coffee, and some background on Coffea taxonomy.
1 23 (Natalie Mueller) da Fonseca et al. 2015 The origin and evolution of maize in the Southwestern United States.
1 16 (Robbie Hart) Pederson et al 2014 "Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia", and coverage of the study in National Geographic.
Fall 2014:
12 5 - Xinyi Liu: Chen et al. (2014) Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 BP, with supplementary materials are available online here, and Science news piece.
12 21 - Jan Salick: Thaman et al (eds.) 2013. The contribution of local Knowledge Systems to IPBES: Building Synergies with Science. Expert Meeting Report, UNESCO/UNU.
11 14 - Serena Acha: Biocultural Refugia: Combating the Erosion of Diversity in Landscapes of Food Production. Stephan Barthel et al. Ecology and Society 18(4): 71
11 7 - Laura Klein: The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine. Todd Kliman.
10 31 - Natalie Mueller: Out of America: tracing the genetic footprints of the global diffusion of maize C. Mir et al. Theor Appl Genet (2013) 126:2671–2682
10 10 - Andrew Flachs: Individual choice and social values: Choice in the agrifood sector. Lawrence Busch, 2014. Journal of Consumer Culture. DOI: 10.1177/1469540514536193
10 3 - Clarissa Cagnato: Russell D. Greaves and Karen L. Kramer (2014) Hunter gatherer use of wild plants and domesticates: archaeological implications for mixed economies before agricultural intensification. Journal of Archaeological Science 41 (2014) 263-71, and the associated supplementary material.
9 26 - Wendy Applequist: 1) Meadows, Donella, et al. Limits to Growth: the 30-year update. Chelsea Green., 2) Motesharrei, Safa et al. 2014. Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY). Methodological and Ideological Options. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.014, and 3) Greer, John Michael (2005). How civilizations fall: a theory of catabolic collapse.
9 19 - Jessie Griffard: 1) Cultural conservation of medicinal plant use in the Ozarks. Justin M Nolan; Michael C Robbins. Human Organization: 58, 1, and
2) From Tree to Table: gathering and processing acorns
9 12 - Rainer Bussmann. Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, Narel Paniagua-Zambrana, Henrik Balslev, and Manuel J. Macía. Ethnobotanical Knowledge Is Vastly Under-Documented in Northwestern South America. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085794
9 5 - Ashley Glenn. Nabhan 2014. Merging the Spice Routes with the Silk Roads. Chapter 6 in Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey.
8 29 - Gayle Fritz. Gross and Zhao 2014. Archaeological and genetic insights into the origins of domesticated rice. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1308942110.
Spring 2014 :
4 18 - Sciencification / Popular Beliefs Bauer 2013. Candiru—A Little Fish With Bad Habits: Need Travel Health Professionals Worry? A Review. Journal of Travel Medicine 20: 119–124.
doi:10.1111/jtm.12005 and Spotte et al. 2001. Experiments on the feeding behavior of the hematophagous candiru, Vandellia cf. plazaii. Environmental Biology of Fishes 60: 459–464. doi:10.1023/A:1011081027565. Supplemental: Marie Claire article on ayahuasca that we discussed during the session.
4 11 - Ecological Salience and Use Values Gueze et al. 2014. Are Ecologically Important Tree Species the Most Useful? A Case Study from Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon.Economic Botany 68 (1): 1-15. doi:10.1007/s12231-014-9257-8
4 4 - Holocene Maize Experiments Piperno et al. 2014. Teosinte before domestication: Experimental study of growth and phenotypic variability in Late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.049.
3 28 - the onset of the Anthropocene Bruce D. Smith, Melinda A. Zeder, The onset of the Anthropocene. Anthropocene [in press] doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2013.05.001
3 21 - Pelargonium sidoides Helfer et al. The Root Extract of the Medicinal Plant Pelargonium sidoides Is a Potent HIV-1 Attachment Inhibitor. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087487, Moyo and Staden. Medicinal properties and conservation of Pelargonium sidoides DC. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2014.01.009 and Brendler and van Wyk. A historical, scientific and commercial perspective on the medicinal use of Pelargonium sidoides (Geraniaceae) doi:10.1016/j.jep.2008.07.037
3 7 - Iberian science in the Renaissance Cañizares-Esguerra, J. (2004). Iberian science in the Renaissance: Ignored how much longer? Perspectives on Science, 12(1), 86–124. doi:10.1162/106361404773843355 (and here's a supplementary article on Humboldt and the history of the botanic garden)
2 28 - Bottle gourd domestication Kistler, L. et al (2014). Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi:10.1073/pnas.1318678111
2 21 - mesolithic botanical bedding Wadley, L. et al. (2011). Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa. Science, 334(6061), 1388–1391. doi:10.1126/science.1213317, and Goldberg, P. et al (2009). Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1(2), 95–122. doi:10.1007/s12520-009-0008-1
2 14 - written texts and ethnobotanical knowledge Leonti, M. (2011). The future is written: Impact of scripts on the cognition, selection, knowledge and transmission of medicinal plant use and its implications for ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 134(3), 542–555. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2011.01.017
2 7 - social paleoethnobotany in Mesoamerica Morehart, C. T., & Morell-Hart, S. (2013). Beyond the Ecofact: Toward a Social Paleoethnobotany in Mesoamerica. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 1–29. doi:10.1007/s10816-013-9183-6
1 31 - Tibetan tea Ahmed, S. & Michael Freeman (2011). Puerh Tea and the Southwest Silk Road: An Ancient Quest for Well-Being. Herbalgram 90, 32-43.
1 24 - Botanical identifications in the Voynich manuscript Tucker, A.O. and Talbert, R. (2013). A preliminary analysis of the botany, zoology, and mineralogy of the Voynich manuscript. Herbalgram 100, 70-85.
Sept 1 - Wendy Applequist - Mikael Larsson and Brenda Foley (2023) "The king's spice cabinet - Plant remains from Gribshunden, a 15th century royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea" PLOS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281010
Sept 8 - Xinyi Liu - Sood et al (2015) "Barnyard millet – a potential food and feed crop of future" Plant Breeding, 134, 135–147
Sept 15 - Kate Farley - article pre-publication
Sept 22 - Megan Belcher - Belcher, Williams and Mueller (2023) "Turning Over a New Leaf: Experimental Investigations into the Role of Developmental Plasticity in the Domestication of Goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri) in Eastern North America" American Antiquity (2023), 1–16 doi:10.1017/aaq.2023.54
Sept 29 - Ashley Glenn - Cavanaugh, Jillian R. (2023) "Authenticity and it's perils: who is left out when food is 'authentic'?"
Gastronomica (2023) 23 (1): 28–37. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.1.28
with supplemental intro: Crossland-Marr, L., and Krause, E. (2023) "Theorizing Authenticity: Introduction to the Special Section" Gastronomica (2023) 23 (1): 5–12. https://doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2023.23.1.5
Oct 6 - Gayle Fritz - Helen Anne Curry (2023) "The Cornbelt's last open pollinated corn: agricultural extension
and the origins of the hybrid corn seed industry" Plants People Planet. 2023;1–14
for background read:
Edgar Anderson "The Sources of Effective Germ-Plasm in Hybrid Maize" Annals
of the Missouri Botanical Garden , Oct., 1944, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Oct., 1944), pp. 355-361
Oct 13 NO MEETING
Oct 20 - Robbie Hart and Jasmine Zenderleng - Article pre-publication
Oct 27 - Matthew Knisley - Tim Denham and Mark Donohue (2023) "Putting the Dark Emu debate into context" Archaeology in Oceania, Vol. 58 (2023): 275–295 DOI: 10.1002/arco.5302
Nov 3 - Natalie Konig - Daniela Sclavo (2023) "Framing the Traditional: Counterrevolution and Gender in Mexican Ethnobotanical Research Through the 1970s and 1980s" Journal of Ethnobiology 2023, Vol. 43(3) 262–273
Nov 10 - Charlie Miksicek
Nov 17 - Kim Kleinman - Mazina'igan: A Chronicle of the Lake Superior Ojibwe, Fall 2023, Wang, Y-M. et al (2005) "Extensive de Novo Genomic Variation in Rice Induced by Introgression From Wild Rice (Zizania latifolia Griseb.)" Genetics 170: 1945–1956
Nov 24 NO MEETING
Dec 1 - Jan Salick - Slipp, N. and M. Coughlin. "The Cultures of Seaweed:
A Singularly Marine and Fabulous Produce". New Bedford Whaling Museum
Dec 8 - Molly Carney - N. Lyons et al. 2023. "How can Archaeobotany be put into Service of Katzie Food Sovereignty?" BC Studies No 218.
Spring 2023
Jan 27 Melissa Ritchey - Brock, Ritchey, and Olsen (2022) "Molecular and archaeological evidence on the geographical origin of domestication for Camelina sativa" American Journal of Botany 2002; 109: 1177-1190.
Feb 3 Christina Youngpeter - Balick et al (2022) "Weather magic as environmental knowledge in southern Vanuatu" Journal of Ethnobiology, 42(4): 383-399.
Feb 10 Katherine Benza - Bautista-Gonzalez et al (2022) "Traditional knowledge of medicinal mushrooms and lichens of Yuman peoples in Northern Mexico" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 18:52 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00550-8
Feb 17 Alayna Mickles - Joseph L and Turner NJ (2020) “The Old Foods Are the New Foods!: Erosion and Revitalization of Indigenous Food Systems in Northwestern North America". Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 4:596237. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2020.596237
Feb 24 Emily Talkow - Rawat, Y.S., and Tekleyohannes, A.T. (2023) "Sustainable Forest Management and Forest Products Industry Development in Ethiopia" International Forestry Review, 23(2) : 197-218
Mar 3 Lily Goldberg: "Amazonian forest peoples’ perceptions of malaria on the Upper Rio Negro, Brazil,
are shaped by both local and scientific knowledge" Journal of Ethnobiology, 42(3): 1-18
Mar 10 Cheyenne Anderson - Dorison (2022) "Ancient Agriculture on Lava Flows: Using LiDAR and Soil Science to Reassess Pre-Hispanic Farming on Mapais Landforms in West Mexico."
Mar 17 Spring Break - no meeting
Mar 24 Wilson Tryon: Landor-Yamagata et al (2018) "Urban Foraging in Berlin: People, Plants and Practices within the Metropolitan Green Infrastructure" Sustainability 2018, 10(6), 1873
Mar 31 Preston Simpson: Santoro et al. "Evolutionary ethnobiology and cultural evolution: opportunities for research and dialog" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2018) 14:1 DOI 10.1186/s13002-017-0199-y
Pop-up journal club, Tuesday April 4: Armstrong et al. 2022, "Coupled archaeological and ecological analyses reveal ancient cultivation and land usen Nuchatlaht (Nuu-chah-nulth) territories, Pacific Northwest" Journal of Archaeological Science, 142, 105611.
Apr 7 Jacob Tabs - Ouango et al (2022) "Indigenous knowledge system associated with the uses of insects for therapeutic or medicinal purposes in two main provinces of Burkina Faso, West Africa" J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine 18, 50 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-022-00547-3
Apr 14 Matt Abel / Kate Farley - Murphy, Robert F., and Julian H. Steward. "Tappers and trappers: Parallel process in acculturation." Economic Development and Cultural Change 4.4 (1956): 335-355
Apr 21 Natalie Mueller (visitors Liz Horton and Everett Bandy) - Carney M, et al "Northwest Native Plants: A Digital Space for Paleoethnobotanical Knowledges and Biocultural Heritage". Heritage. 2022; 5(1):297-310. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage5010016
Apr 28 Matt Abel defense
Fall 2022
Sep 9 - Emily Warschefsky - Grizzly Bears and Human communities: with this Science article, about this Nature and Society paper.
September 16 - Gayle Fritz - Nabhan et al. Comparing Wild and Cultivated Food Plant Richness Between the Arid American and the Mesoamerican Centers of Diversity, as Means to Advance Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the Face of Climate Change. Front. Sustain. Food Syst., 20 June 2022 Sec. Crop Biology and Sustainability https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.840619 Supplementary material: Table 1, Table 2. Table 3. Table 4. Table 5
September 23 - Charlie Miksicek - Khoury et al (2022) "Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity"New Phytologist (2022) 233: 84–118 doi: 10.1111/nph.17733
September 30 - Grace Ward - Pluckhahn, Thomas J., Kendal Jackson, and Jaime A. Rogers. 2022 “Let Us All Enjoy the Fish”: Alternative Pathways and Contingent Histories of Collective Action and Governance Among Maritime Societies of the Western Peninsular Coast of Florida, USA, 100–1600 CE. Frontiers in Political Science 4: 804084.
October 7 - Christina Youngpeter - Vieira da Cunha Avila et al (2022) "Adaptations of Pre-Columbian manioc storage
techniques as strategies to adapt to extreme climatic events in Amazonian floodplains"
Human Ecology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-022-00357-x
October 14 - Wendy Applequist - Brinckmann et al (2021) "A New Global Estimation of Medicinal and Aromatic Plant Species in Commercial Cultivation and Their Conservation Status" Economic Botany, 2021, pp. 1–15
October 21 - Jasmine Zenderland - Racevska et al (2022) "People, lemurs, and utilitarian plants of the littoral forests in southeast Madagascar" International Journal of Primatology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10764-022-00319-6
October 28 - Jacob Dodd - Brenner et al (2010) "Using Traditional Ecological Knowledge to Understand the Diversity and Abundance of Culturally Important Trees" Journal of Ethnobiology 41(2): 209–228
November 4 - Kate Farley - Janelle Marie Baker (2020): "Do Berries Listen? Berries as Indicators, Ancestors, and Agents in Canada's Oil Sands Region", Ethnos, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2020.1765829
November 11 - Natalie Mueller - Fraser et al (2022) "Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas" Nature Communications (2022) 13:3940 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31595-8 | www.nature.com/naturecommunications
November 18 - Jan Salick - Sardos J, Breton C, Perrier X, Van den Houwe I, Carpentier S, Paofa J, Rouard M and Roux N (2022) Hybridization, missing wild ancestors and the domestication of cultivated diploid bananas. Front. Plant Sci. 13:969220. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2022.969220 with supplementary NYTimes article here
December 2 - James Ojacastro - Frederick, Jennie (2000) "Drawing with mulberry" in Hand Papermaking Summer 2000 issue, and Frederick, Jennie (2004) "Lacandon Maya bark cloth: Hu'un" in Hand Papermaking, Winter 2004 issue
December 9 - Robbie Hart - Peter Wyse Jackson (2022) "Hawthorn in Ireland: a rich heritage of folklore, fact, and fantasy" Chapter 8 ofThe Cultural Value of Trees: folk value and biocultural conservation. Jeffrey Wall, ed. Routledge Earthscan: London and New York.
Spring 2022:
January 21: Robbie Hart, Harris, Jessica (2011) Introduction. High on the Hog: a culinary journey from Africa to America. New York, NY: Bloomsbury.
January 28: Ashley Glenn: Soukand et al (2021) "The Trauma of No-choice: Wild food ethnobotany in Yaghnobi and Tajik villages, Varzob Valley, Tajikistan" Genet Resour Crop Evol. 68:3399-3411.
February 4: Natalie Mueller: Germonpré et al. (2021) "Mothering the orphaned pup: the beginning of a domestication process in the Upper Paleolithic." Human Ecology, 49:677-689.
February 11: Melissa Ritchey - Ritchey et al, (2022) "The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size" World Archaeology DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2022.2030792
February 18: Emily Warschefsky - Matthews, P.J. and Ghanem, M.E. (2021)"Perception gaps that may explain the status of taro (Colocasia esculenta) as an 'orphan crop'" Plants, People, Planet. 3:99-112.
February 25: Grace Ward - Rabinow, Sophie A. 2021 Ethnohistoric Accounts as Valuable Resources for Deciphering Commensal Relationships of Pre-Contact Caribbean Agouti (Dasyproctidae: Dasyprocta). Journal of Ethnobiology 41(4):481-498.
March 4: Charlie Miksicek - McBride et al 2020 "Exchange of medicinal plant information in California missions" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 16:35.
March 11: Christopher Harper - Koungoulos, Loukas (2021) "Domestication through dingo eyes: an Australian perspective on human-canid interactions leading to the earliest dogs" Human Ecology 49:691-705 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-021-00262-9
March 25: James Ojacastro - Buckridge, Steeve O. (2016) African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: the construction of race, class, and gender. Chapter 2
April 8: Wendy Applequist - Bauer, Brittany (2020) "Diet of the poor in Roman Italy: an exploration of wild cultivated plants as an essential dietary component" EXARC Journal Issue 2020/2 https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10505
April 15: Megan Belcher Bromham et al "There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reduced infection risk" Nature Human Behaviour | VOL 5 | 878 July 2021 | 878–891 | www.nature.com/nathumbehav
April 22: Gayle Fritz - Wade Campbell (2021) Na’nilkadbeena’niltin – Learning from Herding: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Historic Pastoralism on the Navajo Nation, KIVA, 87:3, 295-315, DOI: 10.1080/00231940.2021.1893456
April 29: Xinyi Liu - Talhelm et al (2022) "Large scale psychological differences within China explained by rice versus wheat agriculture" Science Vol 344.
Fall 2021:
Sep 3: Robbie Hart - Camara-Leret and Bascompte (2021) "Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge" PNAS June 15, 2021 118 (24) e2103683118
Sep 10: Natalie Mueller - Wyatt et al. (2021) " The role of anthropogenic dispersal in shaping the distribution and genetic composition of a widespread North American tree species" Ecology and Evolution 00:1-18
Sep 17: Jan Salick - Mc Alvey et al. (2021) "Ethnobiology Phase VI: Decolonizing Institutions, Projects, and Scholarship" Journal of Ethnobiology, 41(2) : 170-191
Sep 24: Charlie Miksicek - Lentz et al (2021) "Environmental DNA reveals arboreal cityscapes at the Ancient Maya Center of Tikal" Nature Scientific Reports 11: 12725.
with supplemental material
Oct 1: Gayle Fritz - Graff, Sarah R. (2020) "Archaeology of Cuisine and Cooking" Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 49:337-54.
and related Knowable Mag article by Carolyn Wilke
Oct 8: Jose Iriarte - Iriarte, J. et al (2020) "The origins of Amazonian landscapes: plant cultivation, domestication and the spread of food production in tropical South America" Quaternary Science Reviews 248 (2020) 106582
Oct 22: Emily Warschefsky - Akbar, Ahmed Ali "Inside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing" Eater Magazine Aug 12, 2021
Oct 29: Ashley Glenn - Thwaite, Annie (2020) "What is a ‘witch-bottle’? Assembling the textual evidence from early modern England" Magic Ritual Witch. 2020 ; 15(2): 227–251. doi:10.1353/mrw.2020.0018.
Nov 5: Kate Farley - Evans, J. and Lorimer, J. (2021) "Taste-Shaping-Natures: Making novel miso with charismatic microbes and new Nordic fermenters in Copenhagen" Current Anthropology 62:24.
Nov 12: Megan Belcher - Carney, M. and d'Alpoim Guedes, J. (2020) "Paleoethnobotanical identification criteria for bulbs of the North American Northwest" Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30:555-569
Nov 19: Lorraine Hu - di Lernia et al (2020) "Land-use and cultivation in the etaghas of the Tadrart Acacus (south-west Libya): the dawn of Saharan agriculture?" Antiquity 94(375): 580-600
Dec 3: Natalie Mueller - Perri et al (2021) "Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas" PNAS 118:6.
Dec 10: James Lucas - Hand Papermaking Volume 25 number 1, and supplementary articles here and here
Spring 2021:
January 29 - Emily Warschefsky and Colin Khoury - Colin K. Khoury, et al. (2020) "Crop wild relatives of the United States require urgent conservation action" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Dec 2020, 117 (52) 33351-33357;
Warschefsky, Emily J. and Rieseberg, Loren H. (2021) "Laying the groundwork for crop wild relative conservation in the United States" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (4)
Feb 5 - Charlie Miksicek - Roos et al (2020) "Native American fire management at an ancient wildland-urban interface in the Southwest United States" PNAS 118(4)
With supplementals: Archaeology Southwest Magazine Fall 2016 30(4)
https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org/videos and more here and here.
Feb 12 - Wendy Applequist - Łukasz J Łuczaj (2010) "Plant identification credibility in ethnobotany: a closer look at Polish ethnographic studies" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 6:36.
Feb 19 - Jan Salick - Antoinette M. G. A WinklerPrins & Carolina Levis (2021): "Reframing Pre-European Amazonia through an Anthropocene Lens", Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Clement, C.R.; Casas, A.; Parra-Rondinel, F.A.; Levis, C.; Peroni, N.; Hanazaki, N.; Cortés-Zárraga, L.; Rangel-Landa, S.;
Alves, R.P.; Ferreira, M.J.; et al. Disentangling Domestication from Food Production Systems in the Neotropics. Quaternary 2021, 4, 4.
Feb 26 - Gayle Fritz - Dinesh C. Joshi et al (2018) "From zero to hero: the past, present and future of grain amaranth breeding" Theoretical and Applied Genetics 131: 1807-1823. and Karen R. Adams et al (2019) "A bundle of very large, cultigen amaranth (Amaranthus sp.) seeds from Dyck Cliff Dwelling, Arizona" Poster presented at the 2019 Society of Economic Botany Conference.
Mar 5 - Ximena Lemoine - White, Thomas (2020) "Pastoralism after culture: environmental governance and human-animal estrangement at China's ecological frontier" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 27, 30-48
Mar 12 - James Lucas - Hardy, et al. (2020) "Direct evidence of Neanderthal fibre technology and its cognitive and behavioral implication" Sci Rep 10, 4889 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61839-w
Mar 19 - Matt Abel - Walker, Timothy. 2013. The medicines trade in the Portuguese Atlantic World: acquisition and dissemination of healing knowledge from Brazil (c. 1580-1800). Social History of Medicine 26(3):403-431.
On the political epidemiology of the colonial Amazon see pages 86-88 of Cleary, David. 2001. Towards and environmental history of the Amazon: from prehistory to the nineteenth century. Latin American Research Review 36(2): 64-96.
For a discussion of “disturbance pharmacopoeias” in the humid tropics see Voeks, Robert. 2004. Disturbance pharmacopoeias: medicine and myth from the humid tropics. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(4): 868-888.
Mar 26 - Kate Farley - Outland, Katrina (2018) "Trapped in the Goddess's mousetrap: equitable solutions for poverty poaching of Venus Flytraps" Washington Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 8(2)
Apr 2 - Yufeng Sun - Fuller, D. et al (2021) "Transition from wild to domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) revealed in ceramic temper at Three Middle Holocene sites in northern Mali" Afr Archaeol Rev 16 March 2021.
Apr 9 - Mana Yahashi Tang Shanti Morell-Hart's (2020) "Plant Foodstuffs of the Ancient Maya: Agents and Matter, Medium and Message." In Her Cup for Sweet Cacao: Food in Ancient Maya Society, edited by Traci Ardren, pp.124-60. UT Press.
Apr 16 - Lorraine Hu - Thembi Russell and Faye Lander (2021) "'The bees are our sheep': the role of honey and fat in the transition to livestock keeping during the last two thousands years in southernmost Africa" Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 50:3, 318-342, DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2015.1051793
Apr 23 - Eric Conners - Zanella et al. (2019) "Dosage analysis of the 7q11.23 Williams region identifies BAZ1B as a major human gene patterning the modern human face and underlying self-domestication" Sci Adv. 5: eeaw7908.
with supplemental commentary by Wilkins, Adam S. (2020) "A Molecular Investigation of Human Self-Domestication" Trends in Genetics, April 2020, Vol. 36, No. 4
Apr 30 - Grace Ward - Ellis, Erle C., Nicolas Gauthier, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Nicole Boivin, Sandra Díaz, Dorian Q. Fuller, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Jed O. Kaplan, Naomi Kingston, Harvey Locke, Crystal N. H. McMichael, Darren Ranco, Torben C. Rick, M. Rebecca Shaw, Lucas Stephens, Jens-Christian Svenning, and James E. M. Watson (2021) "People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(17):e2023483118
Fall 2020:
August 14th: Matthew Abel - Neves, Eduardo and Michael Heckenberger. 2019. “The call of the wild: rethinking food production in Ancient Amazonia.” Annual Review of Anthropology 48: 371-388.
Optional additional reading: Neves, Eduardo. 2013. “Was agriculture a key productive activity in pre-colonial Amazonia? The stable productive basis for social equality in the Central Amazon.” Human-Environment Interactions: current and future directions, eds. E.S. Brondízio and E.F. Moran. Springer, pp. 371-388.
August 21: Charlie Miksicek- Merida Ponce et al. (2019) "Ethnomycological knowledge among Kaqchikel, indigenous Maya people of Guatemalan Highlands" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 15:3.
August 28: Jan Salick-Vandebroek, et al (2020) "Reshaping the Future of Ethnobiology Research after the COVID-19 Pandemic" Nature Plants Vol. 6, pp. 723-730.
September 4: Natalie Mueller- Lord et al. (2020) "The history of the farm foxes undermines the animal domestication syndrome." Trends in Ecology and Evolution 35(2): 125-136.
September 11- Wendy Applequist - Wadley et al (2020) "Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa" Science 369, pp. 863-866.
September 18- Kate Farley- Myers, Natasha (2015) "Conversations on Plant Sensing: notes from the field" NatureCulture 03: pp. 35-66.
September 25- Rebecca Dudley - Miles, Christopher (2019) "The combine will tell the truth: On precision agriculture and algorithmic rationality" Big Data & Society, Jan-June 2019 pp. 1-12
October 2: Grace Ward- Ellen, Roy (2017) Rethinking the Relationship between Studies of Ethnobiological Knowledge and the Evolution of Human Cultural Cognition. In Human Origins: Contributions from Social Anthropology edited by Power, Finnegan and Callan, p. 59-83. Methodology and History in Anthropology Vol. 30. Berghahn Books, Oxford
October 9: Emily Warchefsky- Denham, T. et al (2020) "The domestication syndrome in vegetatively propagated field crops". Annals of Botany 125: 581-597.
October 16: Yufeng Sun- Gantuya et al (2019) " 'A herder's duty is to think': landscape partitioning and folk habitats of Mongolian herders in a mountain forest steppe (Khuvsugul-Murun region)" Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 15:54.
October 23: Gayle Fritz - Paris, E. et al (2020) "The origins of Maya stingless beekeeping" Journal of Ethnobiology, 40(3): 386-405. With supplemental link to the Shutterbee project here.
November 6: James Lucas - Bennett, B. (2016) " The Sound of Trees: wood selection in guitars and other chordophones." Economic Botany, 70(1) pp. 49-63.
November 13: Megan Belcher - Capparelli, P. (2015). The contribution of ethnobotany and experimental archaeology to interpretation of ancient food processing: methodological proposals based on the discussion of several case studies on Prosopis spp., Chenopodium spp. and Cucurbita spp. from Argentina. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 24(1), 151–163. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-014-0497-4
November 20: Kim Kleinman - Di Lu, (2020) "Local food and transnational science: new boundary issues of the caterpillar fungus in Republican China." Osiris 35:249-267.
and Spary, EC and Zilberstein, A. (2020) "On the virtues of historical entomophagy" Osiris 35: 1-19.
December 4: Xinyi Liu: Stevens, C. et al (2020) "A model for the domestication of Panicum miliaceum (common, proso or broomcorn millet) in China" Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00334-020-00804-z
December 11: Steven Angtuaco - Haas, Randall et al. (2020) "Female Hunters of the Early Americas," Science Advances 6: 1-10
Summer 2020:
1 May: Natalie Mueller - Morrissey, Robert M. (2019) "Climate, Ecology, and History in North America's Tallgrass Prairie Borderlands," Past and Present no. 245. Jan Salick adds: Carla Staver, A., et al. (2011) "The global extent and determinants of savanna and forest as aternative biome states" Science 334(230).
8 May: Gayle Fritz - White, A.J, et al (2020) "After Cahokia: Indigenous repopulation and depopulation of the Horseshoe Lake Watershed AD 1400-1900" American Antiquity 85(2) pp. 263-278.
15 May: Mana Hayashi Tang - Shirane, Haruo (2017) Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature and the Arts, In Rethinking Nature in Japan: From Tradition to Modernity, Silvia Vesco Ruperti and Carolina Negri, eds., pp. 9-25
St. Louis Osuwa Taiko's 'Sakura Sakura': https://www.facebook.com/StLouisTaiko/videos/2684915378462209/
22 May: Charlie Miksicek - Spengler, Robert (2020) "Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication".Trends in Plant Science, April 2020, Vol. 25, No. 4 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2020.01.005
29 May: Xinyi Liu - Chapter 1 of Scott, James C. (2017) Against the Grain: a Deep History of the Earliest States. New Haven: Yale University Press.
5 June: Rebecca Dudley - Dove, Michael R. (2019) "Plants, Politics, and the Imagination over the Past 500 Years in the Indo-Malay Region" Current Anthropology 60(20) August 2019
12 June: Ximena Lemoine: Drennan, R.D. et al. (2020) "Environmental risk buffering in Chinese Neolithic villages: Impacts on community structure in the Central Plains and the Western Liao Valley" Archeological Research in Asia 21.
19 June: Melissa Ritchey - Fassil Kebebew, Yemana Tsehaye, and Tom McNeilly (2001), "Morphological and farmers cognitive diversity of barley (Hordeum vulgare L. POACEAE) at Bale and North Shewa of Ethiopia." Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution. 00:1-15.
26 June: Grace Ward - Arponen, V. P. J., Walter Dörfler, Ingo Feeser, Sonja Grimm, Daniel Groß, Martin Hinz, Daniel Knitter, Nils Müller-Scheeßel, Konrad Ott, and Artur Ribeiro (2019) Environmental determinism and archaeology. Understanding and evaluating determinism in research design. Archaeological Dialogues 26(01):1–9
10 July: Doug Ladd; Indigenous Fire Management in the cerrado of Brazil.
17 July: James Lucas; A tale of textiles: Genetic characterization of historical paper mulberry barkcloth from Oceania.
24 July: Cintia Collins - "Plant Knowledge in the Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648): Retentions of Seventeenth Century Plant use in Brazil," by Alcantara-Rodriguez et al. 2019.
31 July: Ashley Glenn - Nosrat, Samin (ed.) (2019) Best American Food Writing 2019. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
7 August: Wendy Applequist - Luo, H. et al. (2020) Can Chinese Medicine Be Used for Prevention of Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Chinese Journal of Integrated Medicine. 26(4) 243-250. (2) Herbal Formula Chart for Covid-19 (3) Ploberger, Florian (2020) "Covid-19 From the Perspective of TCM Physicians in German-Speaking Countries" Cultural Anthropology June 23, 2020 (4) Chen, JK et al (2020) How COVID-19 (2019-nCOV) is Currently Treated in China with TCM. The Lotus Institute of Integrated Medicine.
Spring 2020:
Jan 17 - Robbie Hart - Zenderland et al. 2019 "The Use of Use Value: Quantifying Importance in Ethnobotany" Economic Botany 73: 293-303.
Jan 24 - Ashley Glenn - Jones, Bradley M. (2017) "Producing Heritage: Politics, Patrimony, Palatability in the Reinvention of Lowcountry Cuisine" Food, Culture & Society 20:2, 217-236.
Jan 31 - Charlie Miksicek - Hodgson, W.C., Salywon, A.M., and Doelle, W.H. (2018) Hohokam Lost Crop Found: A New Agave (Agavaceae) Species Only Known from Large-scale pre-Columbian Agricultural Fields in Southern Arizona. Systematic Botany 43(3): 734-740
with supplemental PowerPoint (and great pics) by Wendy Hodgson.
Feb 7 - Ximena Lemoine - Borgerson et al. (2019). Food Insecurity and the Unsustainable Hunting of Wildlife in a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 3: 99.
Feb 14 - Rebecca Dudley - introduction to How Forests Think (Eduardo Kohn, 2013).
Feb 21 - Kelsey Nordine - Halwas and Worley 2019 "Incorporating Chenopodium berlandieri into a Season Subsistence Pattern: Implications of Biological Traits for Cultural Choices" (Journal of Ethnobiology 39: 510-529).
Feb 28 - Grace Ward - Ross et al. 2014. The Ecological Side of an Ethnobotanical Coin: Legacies in Historically Managed Trees. American Journal of Botany 101: 1618–1630.
Mar 6 - James Lucas - Brennan et al (2013) Jamaican Lace Bark: its history and uncertain future. Textile History 44(2): 235-253. with extra paper from Pearman, G. and Prendergast, H.D.V. (2000) Items from the Lacebark Tree [Lagetta Lagetto (W. Wright) Nash: Thymelaeaceae] from the Caribbean. Economic Botany 54(1): pp. 4-6.
Mar 27 - Melissa Ritchey - Biró et al. 2019 "Reviewing historical traditional knowledge for innovative conservation management: A re-evaluation of wetland grazing" and Ingvason 1969 "The golden sedges of Iceland".
Apr 3 - Kunsang Lama - "The demise of caterpillar fungus in the Himalayan region due to climate change and overharvesting" (Hopping, Chignell and Lamblin, 2018, PNAS). and The Artificial Cultivation of Medicinal Caterpillar Fungus, Ophiocordyceps sinensis (Ascomycetes): A Review Kai Yue, Meng Ye, Xiao Lin, & Zuji Zhou. International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, 15(5): 425–434 (2013)
Apr 10 - Mana Hayashi Tang 'Nationality Medicines in China: Institutional Rationality and Healing Charisma', Lili Lai and Judith Farquhar Comparative Studies in Society and History 57: 2 April 2015 , pp. 381-406.
Apr 17 - Wendy Applequist "Origins and insights into the historic Judean date palm based on genetic analysis of germinated ancient seeds and morphometric studies" (Sallon et al., Sci. Adv. 2020; 6 : eaax0384 5 February 2020).
Apr 24 - Cintia Collins Clarke, L. W., Li, L., Jenerette, G. D., & Yu, Z. (2014). Drivers of plant biodiversity and ecosystem service production in home gardens across the Beijing municipality of China. Urban Ecosystems, 17(3), 741-760.
Fall 2019:
Aug 30 - Ashley Glenn - Nicklas Neuman (2019) On the engagement with social theory in food studies: cultural symbols and social practices, Food, Culture & Society, 22:1, 78-94, DOI: 10.1080/15528014.2018.1547069.
Sep 6 - Natalie Mueller - Laura Ogden (2018) The Beaver Diaspora: A Thought Experiment. Environmental Humanities, 10:1, 63-85.
Sep 13 - Grace Ward - Silcock, J.L. (2018) Aboriginal translocations: the intentional propagation and dispersal of plants in Aboriginal Australia. Journal of Ethnobiology 38(3): 390-405.
Sep 20 - Andrew Townesmith - Ellstrad, Norman C. et al (2010) Crops gone wild: evolution of weeds and invasives from domesticated ancestors, Evolutionary Applications 3(2010) 494-504.
Sep 27 - James Lucas - Gaoue et al, (2017) Theories and hypotheses in ethnobotany, Economic Botany 7(3) p. 269-287.
Oct 4 - Charlie Miksice - Armstong C.G. and Brown C. (2019) Frontiers are frontlines: ethnobotanical science against ongoing colonialism. Journal of Ethnobiology 39(1): 14-31. With supplemental article - Golan, J. et al (2019) Intellectual property rights and ethnobiology: an update on Posey's call to action. Journal of Ethnobiology 39(1): 90-109.
Oct 11 - Mana Hayashi Tang - Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch (2018) Introduction, Multispecies Archaeology, London and New York: Routledge, pp.1-7.
Oct 18 - Gayle Fritz - Andrew Gillreath-Brown (2019) Creation to Rhythm: an ethnographic and archaeological survey of turtle shell rattles and spirituality in the United States. Journal of Ethnobiology 39(3): 425-444.
Oct 25 - Kelsey Nordine - Kassabaum (2019) A Method for Conceptualizing and Classifying Feasting. American Antiquity 84(4), 2019, pp. 610–631
Nov 1 - Xinyi Liu - Sivin, N (2005) Why the scientific revolution did not take place in China - or didn't it? Chinese Science, 1982, 5: 45-66
Nov 8 - Ximena Lemoine - Mysterud, Atle (2010) Still walking on the wild side? Management actions as steps towards 'semi-domestication' of hunted ungulates, Journal of Applied Ecology, 47: 920-925.
Nov 15 - Wendy Applequist - El-Gharbaouia et al. (2017). Comparison of Lamiaceae medicinal uses in eastern Morocco and eastern Andalusia and in Ibn al-Baytar's Compendium of Simple Medicaments (13th century CE). Journal of Ethnopharmacology 202: 208-224. also discussed: Saslis-Lagoudakis et al. (2014) 'The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal’ (Proceedings of the Royal Society - B) read online.
Nov 22 - Catrina Adams - "The Contextual Cat: Human–Animal Relations and Social Meaning in Anglo-Saxon England". Kristopher Poole, J Archaeol Method Theory 2015. 22:857–882 DOI 10.1007/s10816-014-9208-9.
Dec 6 - Robbie Hart - "Indigenous communities win historic right to rooibos tea profits" (Nordling 2019, Nature), and the two ethnobotanical studies it refers to, "Traditional knowledge associated with Rooibos and honeybush" (SA Department of Environmental Affairs, 2015) [note executive summary (pp. i-iii) and conclusions (pp. 49-51 ] and Rooibos: an ethnographic perspective" (Gorelik, 2017) [note introduction (pp. 3-6) and final statement (48-49].
Spring 2018
Jan 18 - Natalie Mueller on Herding Ecologies and Ongoing Plant Domestication Processes in the Americas
Jan 25 - Jan Salick on place names: 1) What's in a Name: Southern Paiute place names as keys to landscape perception (Chapter 11 of Main Johnson and Hunn Landscape Ethnoecology); supplementary reading 2) An Atlas in the Mind (Chapter 4 of Harrison When Languages Die).
Feb 1 - Doug Ladd on Ancient Players, New Game: The Origins of Our Tallgrass Prairies
Feb 8 - Ashley Glenn Foodmaps: tracing boundaries of 'home' through food relations.
Feb 15 - Jessie Griffard "Convergence Between Science and Environmental Education" and a short excerpt from Vanilla Landscapes: Meaning, Memory, and the Cultivation of Place in Madagascar.
Feb 22 - James Lucas Paper Plants in the Tibetan World: A Preliminary Study (Boesi 2016), with Notes on "Coffee" from the Kentucky Coffeetree (Spaeth and Thieret 2004) as supplementary.
Mar 1 - Grace Ward on Peanuts and Power in the Andes: The Social Archaeology of Plant Remains from the Virú Valley, Peru. Masur, Millaire, and Blake 2018.
Mar 8 - Robbie Hart Human diets drive range expansion of megafauna-dispersed fruit species, Zonneveld et al. 2018 PNAS.
Mar 15 - WUSTL Spring Break, no meeting
Mar 22 - Wendy Applequist Albuquerque et al. 2018. Social-Ecological Theory of Maximization: Basic Concepts and Two Initial Models. Biological Theory 10.1007/s13752-019-00316-8.
Mar 29 - Gayle Fritz Winchell et al. 2017. Evidence for Sorghum Domestication in Fourth Millennium BC Easter Sudan. Current Anthropology 58.
Apr 5 - Laura Klein - Danforth Center Tour
Apr 12 - Andrew Townesmith recent article from the Post Dispatch on corncob pipes
Apr 19 - Xinyi Liu Liu et al. 'From ecological opportunism to multi-cropping: Mapping food globalisation in prehistory'. Quaternary Science Reviews 2019
Fall 2018:
Dec 7 - Carolina Romero - Henderson, JS and Joyce, RA (2006) Brewing Distinction: the development of cacao beverages in formative Mesoamerica from Chocolate in Mesoamerica: a cultural history of Cacao, CL McNeil, ed. University Press of Florida: 2006.
Nov 30 - Kelsey Nordine - Tushingham et al, Biomolecular archaeology reveals ancient origins of indigenous tobacco smoking in North American Plateau. PNAS 115(46) Nov 13, 2018.
Nov 23 - thanksgiving break, no meeting
Nov 16 - Wendy Applequist - Cagnato, C. (2018) Shedding light on the nightshades (Solanaceae) used by the Ancient Maya: a review of existing data, and new archeobotanical (macro- and microbotanical) evidence from archeological sites in Guatemala. Economic Botany 72(2) pp 180-195.
Nov 2 - Ximena Lemoine - Zeder MA. 2017. Domestication as a model system for the extended evolutionary synthesis. Interface Focus 7: 20160133.
Oct 26 - Mana Hayashi Tang - Bruno, Maria C., Milton Pinto, and Wilfredo Rojas. 2018. Identifying Domesticated and Wild Kañawa (Chenopodium pallidicaule) in the Archeobotanical Record of the Lake Titicaca Basin of the Andes. Economic Botany 72(2): 137-149.
Oct 19 - Laura Klein - Smith et al 2018: "The Last Mile: Using Local Knowledge to Identify Barriers to Sustainable Grain Legume Production." Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6.
Oct 12 - David Henderson - Schrader et al. North American Entomophagy. Journal of Insects as Food and Feed 2: 111-120 (2016), with Edible Insects: Future prospects for food and feed security FAO 2013 as supplementary. See also our readings from 4/13 last semester. Meeting will be on the 2nd floor conference room.
Oct 5 - Eric Feltz - Pauli et al, Farmers' knowledge and the use of soil fauna in agriculture: a world review, Ecology and Society 21(3) Sept 2016.
Sept 28 - Ashley Glenn - Grey, S. and Newman, L. Beyond culinary colonialism; indigenous food sovereignty, liberal multiculturalism, and the control of gastronomic capital, Agriculture and Human Values (2018) 35:717-730.
Sept 21 - (Grace Ward) Lovell et al.,Temperate agroforestry research: considering multifunctional woody polycultures and the design of long-term field trials, Agroforest Syst 2017, DOI 10.1007/s10457-017-0087-4 ; with supplemental article Day, G., The Indian as an Ecological Factor in the Northeastern Forest, Ecology, 34(2) 1953, pp.329-346.
Sept 14 - (James Lucas) López Binnqüist, Quintanar-Isaías and Vander Meere (2012) "Mexican Bark Paper: Evidence of History of Tree Species Used and Their Fiber Characteristics" Economic Botany 66: 138-148.
Sept 7 - (Gayle Fritz) Robert N. Spengler, Farhod Maksudov, Elissa Bullion, Ann Merkle, Taylor Hermes, Michael Frachetti. Arboreal crops on the medieval Silk Road: Archaeobotanical studies at Tashbulak. PLOS ONE, 2018; 13 (8); supplement here, article about the paper here.
August 31 - (Xinyi Liu) Liu X, Lister DL, Zhao Z, Petrie CA, Zeng X, Jones PJ, et al. (2017) Journey to the east: Diverse routes and variable flowering times for wheat and barley en route to prehistoric China. PLoS ONE 12(11).
Spring 2018:
1 19 - (Jan Salick and Andrew Townesmith) – Plants for People website
1 26 - (Mana Hayashi Tang) Bestel et al 2017 "Wild plant use and multi-cropping at the early Neolithic Zhuzhai site in the middle Yellow River region, China".
2 2 - (Ximena Leomine) on Stillfried et al. 2017, "Do cities represent sources, sinks or isolated islands for urban wild boar population structure?".
2 9 - (Kelsey Nordine) on Carmody et al. 2018, "Residue analysis of smoking pipe fragments from the Feltus archaeological site, Southeastern North America".
2 16 - (Grace Ward) on Hilbert et al. 2017 Evidence for mid-Holocene rice domestication in the Americas. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(11):1693-1698. Here's the article and here's the supplementary info.
2 23 - (Gregory Fields) on "Plant Songs and Teachings of the Straits and Coast Salish of the Pacific Northwest." (Medicine Songs of the Four Seasons from the Straits and Coast Salish of Washington State and British Columbia," with audio samples available on the Folkways site)
3 2 - (James Lucas) on Guanitz et al. 2018 "Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski's horses"
3 9 - (Eric Feltz) on Campbell 2009 "Ethnoecology of the Ozark Highlands' agricultural encounter" and Campbell 2012 "Open-pollinated seed exchange: renewed Ozark tradition as agricultural biodiversity conservation".
3 23 - (Robbie Hart) on Saslis-Lagoudakis et al. (2014) 'The evolution of traditional knowledge: environment shapes medicinal plant use in Nepal’ (Proceedings of the Royal Society - B). Available in HTML or pdf.
3 30 - (Carolina Romero) on Peters et al 2003 "The Life and Times of Bursera glabrifolia in Mexico" (Economic Botany) with Bernal et al 2007 "Eastern Tukanoan names of the Palm Iriartea deltoidea" (Journal of Ethnobiology) as supplementary.
4 6 - (Jessie Griffard) on Radiolab podcast, Smarty Plants, and a chapter from the book, Are We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal.
4 13 - (Eva Colberg) on Shelomi 2015 "Why We Still Don’t Eat Insects: Assessing Entomophagy Promotion Through a Diffusion of Innovations Framework" and van Huis's chapter from Ethnozoology, "Insects as Human Food,".
4 20 - (Matt Abel) on Açai, with Brondízio, E.S., Safar, C.A. & Siqueira, A.D. 2002. The Urban Market of Açaí Fruit and Rural Land Use Change. Urban Ecosystems 6:67-97 as the main reading and Brondízio, Eduardo. 2008. "Palm ethnobotany and Caboclo material culture." In The Amazonian Caboclo and the Açaí Palm: forest farmers in the global market, pp. 96-117. New York Botanical Garden Press as supplementary.
4 27 – (Gayle Fritz) on "To Know Them is to Love Them," by Eugene Hunn and the chapter reading "Everyone Loves Birds" by William Thomas. We'll meet in the 1st floor meeting room of the Monsanto Research Center.
Fall 2017:
9 1 - (Gayle Fritz) Mueller et al. Nature Plants Growing Lost Crops
9 8 - (Kelsey Nordine) Genome Sequence of a 5,310-Year-Old Maize Cob Ramos-Madrigal et al. Current Biology.
9 15 - (Glenn Stone) Disembedding grain: Golden Rice, the Green Revolution, and heirloom seeds in the Philippines Agriculture and Human Values.
9 22 - (Kate Farley) "Nature's Emporium: The Botanical Drug Trade and the Commons in Southern Appalachia."
9 29 - (Grace Ward) "Crop Population Perspectives on Maize Seed Systems in Mexico," by George A. Dyer and Edward Taylor.
10 6 - (Gary Nabhan) led the discussion regarding The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Curbing the Loss of Language and Biodiversity by Wilder.
10 20 - (Mana Tang) led the discussion on a chapter from Insectopedia by Hugh Raffles
10 27 - (Ashley Glenn) led the discussion on Globalised cuisine, non-national identities and the individual: staging Turkishness in Turkish-speaking restaurants in London Defne Karaosmanoglu Journal of Intercultural Studies.
11 3 - (Andrea Burr) Memory carriers and stewardship of metropolitan landscapes by Andersson and Barthel in Ecological Indicators.
11 10 - (James Lucas) chapter 6 "A Survey of Tibetan Paper", by A. Helman-Wazny in The Archaeology of Tibetan Books. Chapter 7 is included as a supplement.
12 1 - (Robbie Hart) Peñailillo et al. (2016) Sex Distribution of Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) in the Pacific, with Chang et al. (2015) A holistic picture of Austronesian migrations revealed by phylogeography of Pacific paper mulberry a recommended supplementary reading.
12 8 - (Armand Randrianasolo) Ens et al. 2016 in Biodiversity and Conservation "Putting indigenous conservation policy into practice delivers biodiversity and cultural benefits".
Spring 2017:
2 3 - (Ashley Glenn) Johnson 2016 "'Nothing is sweet in my mouth': Food, identity, and religion in African Lisbon" Food and Foodways, 24(3-4): 234-256
2 20 - (Robbie Hart) Ellen 2016 "Is There a Role for Ontologies in Understanding Plant Knowledge Systems?" Journal of Ethnobiology, 36(1):10-28.
2 27 - (Gayle Fritz) Kuhnlein 2014 "How Ethnobiology Can Contribute to Food Security" from the Journal of Ethnobiology 34(1) 12-27.
2 24 - (Jan Salick) 'Naxi Cosmology of Mt. Yulong Sacred Sites with Caveats for Conservation.'
3 3 - (Wendy Applequist) Katerere 2014. 'Commercialization of Ethnoveterinary Products'
3 10 - (Grace Ward) Amanda L. Logan 2016 "Why Can't People Feed Themselves?": Archaeology as Alternative Archive of Food Security in Banda, Ghana. American Anthropologist 118(3): 508-524.
3 17 - (Jessie Griffard) Brownell et al. 2013. Science Communication to the General Public and Tabcuhi 2017. In America’s Heartland, Discussing Climate Change Without Saying ‘Climate Change’.
3 24 - (Taryn Pelch) Ethnobotany and Ethnohistorical Sources for Mesoamerica by Robert Bye and Linares.
4 7 - (Mariah Heulsmann) Rock Shelters as Women's Retreats: Understanding Newt Kash.
4 14 - (Matt Abel) Harris 2006. Peasant Riverine Economies and Their Impact in the Lower Amazon. In Human impacts on Amazonia: the role of traditional ecological knowledge in conservation and development.
4 21 - (Natalie Mueller) Hodder (2017) Things and the Slow Neolithic: the Middle Eastern Transformation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory: DOI 10.1007/s10816-017-9336-0
4 28 - (Mana Hayashi Tang) Rival (2009) Towards an understanding of the Huaorani ways of knowing and naming plants.
Fall 2016:
12 9 - (Jan Salick) Wittman 2011 Food Sovereignity: a new rights framework for food and nature?
11 18 - (Laura Klein) Grasser et al, (2016) Children as ethnobotanists: methods and local impact of a participatory research project with children on wild plant gathering in the Grosses Walsertal Biosphere Reserve, Austria. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 12:46.
11 11 - (Rainer Bussmann) Bussmann et al, (2016) A comparative ethobotany of Khevsureti, Samtskhe-Javaheti, Tusheti, Svaneti, and Racha-Lechkhumi, Republic of Georgia (Sakartvelo, Caucasus. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 12:43.
11 4 - (Mana Tang) Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. 2015. "5. Open Ticket, Oregon." and "6. War Stories." In The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. Princeton University Press. pp.73-94.
10 28 - (Andrew Townesmith) Balding and Williams (2016) , Plant blindness and the implications for plant conservation. Conservation Biology, 00:0 p 1-8, with Wandersee and Schussler (1999) Preventing plant blindness. The American Biology Teacher 61:2, 82+84+86 as a supplemental reading.
10 21 - (Wendy Applequist) Randrianarivony, T. et al, (2016) Value of useful goods and ecosystem services from Angalavelo sacred forest and their relationships with forest conservation. Madagascar Conservation and Development 11:2.
10 7 - (Carolina Romero) Bernal et al. (2013) Botswanan palm basketry among the Wounaan of western Colombia: lessons from an intercontinental technology transfer. Tropical Conservation Science Vol.6 (21):221-229.
9 30 - (Eric Feltz) Solving the Perennial Paradox by Nancy Turner and Sandra Peacock
9 23 - (Grace Ward) Precolonial Plant Conservation along the Northwest Coast of North America.
9 16 - (Jade Richards) Empson (2012) The danger of excess. Social Analysis 56 (1), p. 117-132 and Empson (2011) excerpt from Harnessing Fortune, p. 236-241.
9 9 - (Ashley Glenn) Jasarevic, l. (2015) The thing in a jar. Cultural Anthropology, 30:1.
9 2 - (Gayle Fritz) Crowther et al (2016) Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion. PNAS 113:24, 6635-6640.
Spring 2016:
4 29 - (Laura Klein) Evolution and conservation of clonally-propagated crops
4 22 - (Jessica Griffard) So Little Brain, So Much Mind: Intelligence and Behavior in Non-human Animals
4 15 - (Clarissa Cognato) American plants in Sub-Saharan Africa: a review of the archaeological evidence, with supplementary paper
4 8 - (Mana Hayashi Tang) Preface and Chapter 1 from Plant Theory Biopower and Vegetable Life by Jeffrey T. Nealon.
3 25 - Early Humans (Wendy Applequist) Belfer-Cohen and Hovers 1992 "In the Eye of the Beholder: Mousterian and Natufian Burials in the Levant" Current Anthropology 33: 463-471 and Peresani et al. 2011 "Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane Cave 44 ky B.P., Italy " PNAS 108: 3888-3893.
3 11 - Origin of Cultivation (Andrew Townsmith). Snir et al. (2015). The Origin of Cultivation and Proto-Weeds, Long Before Neolithic Farming. PLOS 10.1371/journal.pone.0131422.
3 4 - Indigenous Fire Management (Eric Feltz). Mistry et al. (2005). Human Ecology 3: 365-386
2 26 - Pre-Columbian Agriculture (Jane Mt. Pleasant). Mt. Pleasant (2015). Early American Studies 13: 374-412.
2 19 - Communicating ethnobiology (Catrina Adams). Brainstorming for 2016 USA Science and Engineering Festival.
2 12 - Farmer seed networks (Natalie Mueller) Coomes et al (2015). Food Policy 56: 41-50.
2 5 - Ecology of religious beliefs (Carlos Botero) Botero et al. (2014) PNAS 111: 16784–16789 & Gavin et al. (2013) BioScience 63: 524–535
1 29 - Chili domestication & pharmacology (Robbie Hart) Lu et al. in BMJ; Kraft et al. PNAS
1 22 - Climate Change Anthropology (Jan Salick) Barnes and Dove eds. (2015) Climate Cultures (Introduction)
Fall 2015:
12 4 (Julie Rub) THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA The Evolution of the Brain and the Determinants of Food Choice, and, for context, Tardif et al (2013) Body Mass Growth in Common Marmosets: Toward a Model of Pediatric Obesity.
11 20 (Jaclyn Boozalis) Fennell et al. "Assessing African medicinal plants for efficacy and safety: pharmacological screening and toxicology" and, for context, Abdullahi "Trends and Challenges of Traditional Medicine in Africa".
11 13 (Carolina Romero) Morueta-Holme et al. "Strong upslope shifts in Chimborazo’s vegetation over two centuries since Humboldt" complemented by González et al.
11 6 (Gayle Fritz): Liebenberg (2006) Persistence Hunting by Modern Hunter-Gatherers, critical response by Pickering and Bunn in 2007, and a followup by Liebenberg in 2008.
10 30 (Elissa Bullion): Russell D. Greaves & Karen L. Kramer Hunter-gatherer use of wild plants and domesticates: archaeological implications for mixed economies before agricultural intensification.
10 23 (Kelsey Nordine): Munoz et al. Cahokia’s emergence and decline coincided with shifts of flood frequency on the Mississippi River, Baires et al. Correlation does not equal causation: Questioning the Great Cahokia Flood and Munoz et al. Reply to Baires et al.: Shifts in Mississippi River flood regime remain a contributing factor to Cahokia’s emergence and decline.
10 9 (Eric Feltz) The Role of Ethnobotany and Environmental Perception in the Conservation of Atlantic Forest Fragments in Northeastern Brazil
10 2 (Nate Simon) Sveta Yamin-Pasternak's: The Rotten Renaissance in the Bering Strait: Loving, Loathing, and Washing the Smell of Foods with a (Re)acquired Taste.
9 25 (Robbie Hart) EN Anderson: Origins of Chinese Food: Neolithic Innovations and Early Dynasties, and two chapters from "Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China": Chapter 2 - Chinese prehistory and Chapter 3 - The earliest Chinese dynasties
9 18 (Peter Bernhardt) Amend et al. Local perceptions of Matsutake mushroom management, in NW Yunnan China and Shrestha & Bawa. Trade, harvest, and conservation of caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis) in the Himalayas.
9 11 (Andrew Flachs) Kyndt et al. The genome of cultivated sweet potato contains Agrobacterium T-DNAs with expressed genes: An example of a naturally transgenic food crop and the "somewhat aggressively titled followup" opinion piece: Blancke et al. Fatal attraction: the intuitive appeal of GMO opposition.
9 4 (BrieAnna Langlie) The domestication of Amazonia before European conquest (Clement et al 2015), with New Scientist reporting here.
8 28 (Ashley Glenn) Hardy et al, The importance of dietary carbohydrate in human evolution. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 90:3, Sept 2015. with NPR reporting here.
Spring 2015:
4 24 (Wendy Applequist) Hidayati et al, Ready for phase 5 - current status of ethnobiology in Southeast Asia and Kunwar et al, Medicinal plant dynamics in indigenous medicines in farwest Nepal
4 10 and 17 (Ashley Glenn) Ethnographic video. Khangai Herds. (And various other links based on our discussions: Comanche silent film, Edward Curtis video, Nine Academy, Tibetan Stellera paper making, Search for Ozark ballads, Mezcal's Origin, Human Planet.
4 3 (Andrew Flachs) Seeds of Persistence: Agrobiodiversity in the American Mountain South.
3 27 (Gayle Fritz) Swan and Simons, 2014. An Ethnobotany of Firewood in Osage Big Moon Peyotism.
3 20 (Jessie Griffard) Healthy nature healthy people: ‘contact with nature’ as an upstream health promotion intervention for populations
3 6 (Eric Feltz) McKey et al. 2015 (PNAS) "Pre-Columbian agricultural landscapes, ecosystem engineers, and self-organized patchiness in Amazonia"
2 27 (Nate Simon) Forest Restoration in a Fog Oasis: Evidence Indicates Need for Cultural Awareness in Constructing the Reference. Balaguer et al. 2001, PLOS 6(8): e23004.
2 20 (BrieAnna Langlie) Yentsch 2013 - Applying Concepts from Historical Archaeology to New England’s Nineteenth-Century Cookbooks.
2 13 (Maris Gillette) Lowenthal (2006) Natural and cultural heritage.
2 6 (Kelsey Nordine) Fuller et al. "Convergent Evolution and Parallelism in Plant Domestication Revealed by an Expanding Archaeological Record"
1 30 (Charlotte Taylor) Tesfaye et al. 2014, ISSR fingerprinting of Coffea arabica throughout Ethiopia reveals high variability in wild, Davis et al. 2012, The Impact of Climate Change on Indigenous Arabica Coffee, and some background on Coffea taxonomy.
1 23 (Natalie Mueller) da Fonseca et al. 2015 The origin and evolution of maize in the Southwestern United States.
1 16 (Robbie Hart) Pederson et al 2014 "Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia", and coverage of the study in National Geographic.
Fall 2014:
12 5 - Xinyi Liu: Chen et al. (2014) Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 BP, with supplementary materials are available online here, and Science news piece.
12 21 - Jan Salick: Thaman et al (eds.) 2013. The contribution of local Knowledge Systems to IPBES: Building Synergies with Science. Expert Meeting Report, UNESCO/UNU.
11 14 - Serena Acha: Biocultural Refugia: Combating the Erosion of Diversity in Landscapes of Food Production. Stephan Barthel et al. Ecology and Society 18(4): 71
11 7 - Laura Klein: The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine. Todd Kliman.
10 31 - Natalie Mueller: Out of America: tracing the genetic footprints of the global diffusion of maize C. Mir et al. Theor Appl Genet (2013) 126:2671–2682
10 10 - Andrew Flachs: Individual choice and social values: Choice in the agrifood sector. Lawrence Busch, 2014. Journal of Consumer Culture. DOI: 10.1177/1469540514536193
10 3 - Clarissa Cagnato: Russell D. Greaves and Karen L. Kramer (2014) Hunter gatherer use of wild plants and domesticates: archaeological implications for mixed economies before agricultural intensification. Journal of Archaeological Science 41 (2014) 263-71, and the associated supplementary material.
9 26 - Wendy Applequist: 1) Meadows, Donella, et al. Limits to Growth: the 30-year update. Chelsea Green., 2) Motesharrei, Safa et al. 2014. Human and Nature Dynamics (HANDY). Methodological and Ideological Options. 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.014, and 3) Greer, John Michael (2005). How civilizations fall: a theory of catabolic collapse.
9 19 - Jessie Griffard: 1) Cultural conservation of medicinal plant use in the Ozarks. Justin M Nolan; Michael C Robbins. Human Organization: 58, 1, and
2) From Tree to Table: gathering and processing acorns
9 12 - Rainer Bussmann. Rodrigo Cámara-Leret, Narel Paniagua-Zambrana, Henrik Balslev, and Manuel J. Macía. Ethnobotanical Knowledge Is Vastly Under-Documented in Northwestern South America. PLOS One. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085794
9 5 - Ashley Glenn. Nabhan 2014. Merging the Spice Routes with the Silk Roads. Chapter 6 in Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey.
8 29 - Gayle Fritz. Gross and Zhao 2014. Archaeological and genetic insights into the origins of domesticated rice. PNAS. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1308942110.
Spring 2014 :
4 18 - Sciencification / Popular Beliefs Bauer 2013. Candiru—A Little Fish With Bad Habits: Need Travel Health Professionals Worry? A Review. Journal of Travel Medicine 20: 119–124.
doi:10.1111/jtm.12005 and Spotte et al. 2001. Experiments on the feeding behavior of the hematophagous candiru, Vandellia cf. plazaii. Environmental Biology of Fishes 60: 459–464. doi:10.1023/A:1011081027565. Supplemental: Marie Claire article on ayahuasca that we discussed during the session.
4 11 - Ecological Salience and Use Values Gueze et al. 2014. Are Ecologically Important Tree Species the Most Useful? A Case Study from Indigenous People in the Bolivian Amazon.Economic Botany 68 (1): 1-15. doi:10.1007/s12231-014-9257-8
4 4 - Holocene Maize Experiments Piperno et al. 2014. Teosinte before domestication: Experimental study of growth and phenotypic variability in Late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2013.12.049.
3 28 - the onset of the Anthropocene Bruce D. Smith, Melinda A. Zeder, The onset of the Anthropocene. Anthropocene [in press] doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2013.05.001
3 21 - Pelargonium sidoides Helfer et al. The Root Extract of the Medicinal Plant Pelargonium sidoides Is a Potent HIV-1 Attachment Inhibitor. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0087487, Moyo and Staden. Medicinal properties and conservation of Pelargonium sidoides DC. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2014.01.009 and Brendler and van Wyk. A historical, scientific and commercial perspective on the medicinal use of Pelargonium sidoides (Geraniaceae) doi:10.1016/j.jep.2008.07.037
3 7 - Iberian science in the Renaissance Cañizares-Esguerra, J. (2004). Iberian science in the Renaissance: Ignored how much longer? Perspectives on Science, 12(1), 86–124. doi:10.1162/106361404773843355 (and here's a supplementary article on Humboldt and the history of the botanic garden)
2 28 - Bottle gourd domestication Kistler, L. et al (2014). Transoceanic drift and the domestication of African bottle gourds in the Americas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. doi:10.1073/pnas.1318678111
2 21 - mesolithic botanical bedding Wadley, L. et al. (2011). Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa. Science, 334(6061), 1388–1391. doi:10.1126/science.1213317, and Goldberg, P. et al (2009). Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 1(2), 95–122. doi:10.1007/s12520-009-0008-1
2 14 - written texts and ethnobotanical knowledge Leonti, M. (2011). The future is written: Impact of scripts on the cognition, selection, knowledge and transmission of medicinal plant use and its implications for ethnobotany and ethnopharmacology. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 134(3), 542–555. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2011.01.017
2 7 - social paleoethnobotany in Mesoamerica Morehart, C. T., & Morell-Hart, S. (2013). Beyond the Ecofact: Toward a Social Paleoethnobotany in Mesoamerica. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 1–29. doi:10.1007/s10816-013-9183-6
1 31 - Tibetan tea Ahmed, S. & Michael Freeman (2011). Puerh Tea and the Southwest Silk Road: An Ancient Quest for Well-Being. Herbalgram 90, 32-43.
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