Botanical Resources

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This is a collection of Internet sources which may be useful for archaeologists in the identification of plant remains. If you know of a site not listed, click here to register, or send mail to archnet@asu.edu.

Updated: June, 2001

Data Archives and Catalogues

The Dung File
Seed Biology Home Page - The Ohio State Unversity
PLB143: Evolution of Crop Plants, an electronic classroom presentation by Paul Gepts, UC Davis
The Agricultural Genome Information Server from the United States Department of Agriculture contains many searchable databases, three of which are of particular interest to anthropologists and archaeologists:
EthnobotDB - Worldwide Plant Uses
FoodplantDB - Native American Food Plants
MPNADB - Medicinal Plants of Native America
University of Cambridge, Dept. of Plant Sciences American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Countrylife.Net - herbs and gardening- search Ethnobotany Cafe Andean Botanical Information System Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research -- University of Arizona Australian National Botanical Garden, Centre for Plant Biodiversity, and Australian Biodiversity Information Facitility Museum of Paleontology, The University of California, Berkeley Department of Systematic Biology-Botony Smithsonian Institute Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology -- University of Connecticut Glossary of Botanical Terms Wood and Forest Science Department -- Laval University, Quebec Maize COOP Missouri Botanical Garden Paleoclimatological Data -- National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Native American Herbal and Plant Knowledge -- Social Sciences in Forestry -- University of Minnesota Botanical Collections -- Smithsonian Institute

Pollen

University of Arizona Catalog of Internet Pollen and Spore Images
Quaternary Geology, Uppsala University
Palynology and Paleoclimatology -- Australian National University
Plant & Pollen Photo Gallery National Allergy Bureau
Canadian Association of Palynologists

Research Reports

The Ancient Bristlecone Pine
Prehistoric Plant Use in New England

Bibliographies

Midcontinental prehistoric plant use
Prehistoric plant use in the northeast
archaeobotanical reports for Near Eastern sites

Directories

Internet Directory for Botany: Paleobotany, Palynology, Pollen
Index to Biological Directories on the WWW -- UC Berkeley
Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
Scott's Botanical Links - Subject Index
Boggy's Palaeopalynology Directory
PLANT facts - Fact Sheet Database and University Search Engine Ohio State University

Other Resources

Native Seeds/SEARCHnonprofit conservation organization based in Tucson, Arizona

Conferences

North American Paleontological Convention 2001

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