Prehistoric Subsistence Change in the Lower Mississippi River Valley

该项目的目的是改善对下列人员的培训： 本科生对民族科学的方法， 考古学家研究中专门使用的设备 史前晚期（公元400-1500年）的生活变化 密西西比河谷。学生们学习如何识别不同类型的 从考古遗址中发现的植物遗骸， 组合在时间上变化的意义， 从觅食到农业的转变。 本科生还将最新的分析方法应用于 几个重要地点的考古植物遗迹

The purpose of this project is to improve the training of undergraduates on methods of ethnoscience as practiced by archaeologists. Equipment is specifically being used in the study of Late Prehistoric (A.D. 400-1500) subsistence change in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Students learn to identify types of carbonized plant remains recovered from archaeological sites and to interpret the significance of assemblages changing through time during the transition from a foraging to an agricultural lifeway. Undergraduates also apply the latest analytical procedures to archaeobotanical remains from several important sites.