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Archaeobotany Collections

  • Archaeobotany Reference collection
  • Archaeobotany Collection
Ongoing Research
  • Plant remains from Spanish colonial sites in Florida. This long-term project has looked at colonial foodways, economies, changing roles of plants, and interactions between Europeans and Native Americans.
  • Plant remains from sites in the Everglades National Park: changing plant use through time and across microhabitats in both coastal and glades regions.
  • Plant use at the Spanish colonial San Luis de Alapachee site in Tallahassee, Florida.
  • Redistribution patterns at the Penal Presidio of Santa Maria de Galve, Pensacola, Florida.
Previous Research
  • West Indian incipient plant domestication (Newsom, 1993 University of Florida Dissertation).
  • Evaluation of plant use at the prehistoric Seminole Rest site.
  • Santa Rosa/Swift Creek plant analysis at the Bernath Place site.