archaeobotanists

Apart from codirectors Yannis Sakellarakis and Efi Sapouna-Sakellarakis, a multidisciplinary team consisting of archaeologists, architects, petrographers, archaeobotanists, zooarchaeologists, conservators, and other specialists, is studying not only the archaeology of Zominthos, but also the environmental (flora and fauna) and geographical history of the area.

Meet the Team « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2009

Perhaps the most important distinction between the two sites, however, was in the findings of the archaeobotanists and zooarchaeologists who studied the plant and animal remains at Aşikli.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Meanwhile research in the New World has opened an even greater time gap between plant domestication and sedentism, although in the reverse direction: archaeobotanists working in Mexico, Panama, and Ecuador have recently found evidence that humans began domesticating squashes some 10,000 years ago, about 5,000 years before they began to settle in permanent villages.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

With the two machines rumbling loudly all day long behind the dig house, Christine and her team of archaeobotanists were able to float almost seven hundred soil samples during the 1996 season.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Cecilia Western had donated her entire charcoal collection to the institute, and of course Gordon Hillman and other archaeobotanists had given the gray building on Gordon Square an international reputation.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Not only was he a codiscoverer of Çatalhöyük, but, while working at Can Hasan, he had invented the flotation machine that Christine and many other archaeobotanists used to recover plant remains.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Most important, archaeobotanists had to sample large amounts of soil if they were to get a truly representative picture of which plant species were present and whether they were domesticated or wild.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

Meanwhile, at Abu Hureyra, Hillman and his team of archaeobotanists, who used flotation techniques to recover enormous amounts of ancient plant remains, had identified three different phases during the hunter-gatherer occupation of the site.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

None of this pleases archaeobotanists, who try to piece together the history of plant domestication from scraps of ancient plant remains.

RedOrbit News - Technology 2010

None of this pleases archaeobotanists, who try to piece together the history of plant domestication from scraps of ancient plant remains.

WUSTL Record: University News 2010