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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"plant use"”.
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Niche construction and plant-use in the Mesolithic
In Britain and north-west Europe, the human-plant interactions of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers have been the focus of debate and study for nearly 60 years. The archaeobotanical and pollen records from these regions suggest that Mesolithic people actively constructed their own niches through the use …
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Ancestral Pharmacopeias: A Paleoethnobotanical Assessment of Plant Use in the Western Free State, South Africa
… indicating an increase in the reliance on plant resources and signifying the economic, technological, and social shift from the Middle Stone Age to Later Stone Age. From October to December of 2011, I carried out an ethnobotanical study of economically important native plants used by modern …
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Since I Know Myself: A Cultural Examination of Medicinal Plant Use in the Commonwealth of Dominica
… Dominican culture through exploring medicinal plant use on the island. Dominica, located in the Lesser Antilles of the Caribbean Archipelago, offers a distinctive setting because historically there has been an amalgamation of cultures that have participated in and influenced the formation of …
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Considering the importance of wetlands to hunter-gatherer adaptation : a microbotanical investigation of Late Pleistocene plant-use in the Eastern Levant
… influencing the ways they chose to use, modify and manage the changing Levantine landscape through and after the Last Glacial Maximum (ca. 28-19 ka cal. BP). The main objective of this dissertation is to employ phytolith and micro-charcoal analysis to explore through direct evidence, …
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A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of Three Formative Period Wankarani Sites Located in the Department of Oruro, Bolivia
… pastoralism has ignored the importance of plants, especially the cultivation of domesticated plants in this region. The Wankarani people lived in the central altiplano of the south-central Andes during the Formative period: 2000 B.C.-A.D. 400). Previous research has assumed that the …
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Diet Breadth Evolution and Diversification of a Generalist Insect Herbivore
… are specialists, which feed on only a few plant species. The factors that cause some herbivores to be specialists and others to be generalists are still unclear. It is known that the selective forces from natural enemies (top-down) and the host plants (bottom-up) influence an herbivore's …
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The Fisherman Lake Slave and their environment : a story of floral and faunal resources
The past uses of the flora and fauna and methods used for making artifacts were recorded as described and demonstrated by the Slave Indian informants from Fisherman Lake, near Fort Liard, Northwest Territories. The area in which these Slave lived was described in terms of the geography, soils, …
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Living in a cornfield: The variation and ecology of Late Prehistoric agriculture in the western Kentucky Confluence Region
… analyzed and provide the relationships between plant use and the functioning of hierarchical communities. Town sites contain complex and rich depositional sequences surrounding mound and plaza precincts. Archaeological data indicates that occupations were continuous at each site from A.D. …
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Ethnobotany of Namaqualand : the Richtersveld
… to provide a biobehavioural focus for indigenous plant use in the semi-arid areas of one of the six so-called Coloured Rural Reserves (Komaggas, Concordia, Richtersveld, Steinkopf, Leliefontein and Pella) in the north-western Cape (Namaqualand). Although much of the indigenous plant lore has been …
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The Spoon Toe Site (11MG179): Middle Woodland gardening in the lower Illinois River Valley
… American Bottom to educe regional variation in plant use patterns. This is followed by a discussion of the mobility issues regarding horticultural people. Ethnographic analogy is utilized to formulate a model of what the archaeological sites of residentially mobile farmers during the Middle …
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The resource value of indigenous plants to rural people in a low agricultural potential area (Volume 1)
… the borderland between nature conservation, plant use and people. The study area situated at the southern end of the large coastal plain stretching down the east coast of Africa from Somalia to Natal, South Africa. Roughly rectangular in shape, and 1900 km² in extent, it farms a major part of …
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Origini e diffusione dell’agricoltura in Sardegna: studio dei resti vegetali della preistoria
… Sardinia through the analyses of archaeological plant remains. Plant use (both domesticated and wild) have allowed exploring the subsistence system of the first farming communities in the island. More specifically, the main goals are: • Identification of the first domesticated plants in Sardinia …
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Determination of Site Functionality and Subsistence Patterns at the Bray Archaeological Site (45PI1276) in Edgewood, Washington
… Phase (LBP) (ca. 3,500 BP to ca. 2,400 BP). Plant resource intensification is evident by 4,000 BP within the interior of the Pacific Northwest, but until recently there has been little evidence to support early intensification of plant use in the Puget Sound during the LBP. Test excavations …
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Coexistence and resource use in space and time in a West African tortoise beetle community
… within a functional group or guild where species use similar resources. In this project a community of seven closely related leaf beetle species (Chrysomelidae: Cassidinae) was investigated which coexist on a common host plant system (fam. Convovulaceae) in a tropical moist savanna (Ivory Coast, …
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Disentangling plant-microbe interactions under environmental change
… carbon: nitrogen (C:N) ratios and shifting plant-microbial interactions, on which plants are largely dependent. This thesis addresses the potential impacts on plant-microbial interactions under different C:N fertiliser regimes and water-availability by analysing the overall and N-cycling …
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Genetic architecture and ecological speciation in Heliconius butterflies
… alleles that characterise emerging species and cause reproductive isolation. Accordingly, genetic architectures that impede recombination can slow the breakdown of linkage disequilibrium and facilitate speciation. Mimicry in tropical butterflies has long been championed as an example of adaptation …
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Human-Plant Interactions in Semi-Arid Regions: An Archaeobotanical Study of the Iron Age Site of Mtanye, Southwestern Zimbabwe
Humans have always interacted with plants for thousands of years ago. The origin of plant domestication is a clear example of human-plant mutualism. This mutual relationship has gradually developed into a co-entangled relationship where both symbionts benefit each other in an environment. The …
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Studi etnobotani tumbuhan yang berpotensi sebagai obat penyakit pada pnak di Kecamatan Guluk-Guluk Kabupaten Sumenep Madura
… 21%, dan membeli di pasar sebesar 13%. Nilai use value tertinggi adalah kelapa (Cocus nucifera L), dengan nilai 4, nilai use value terkecil adalah jarak pagar (Jatropha curcas L.), tapak liman (Elephantopus scabes L.) dan selasih hitam (Ocimum basilicum L.) dengan nilai 1. ENGLISH : Age growth …
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Optimizing nutrient availability for high-yield corn production
… factors that affect nutrient availability to plants, ultimately influencing how well a plant can partition nutrients into the required plant tissues. In order to sustain adequate nutrient uptake, assessment of several different management factors will help determine how each would contribute …
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Recent Changes in the Ethnobotany of Standing Rock Indian Reservation
… was a traditional part of the Lakota culture. Plant use among the Lakota has been greatly reduced and in some cases, completely eliminated by the damming of the Missouri River by Oahe Dam. This dam, which forced the Lakota of Standing Rock Reservation to give up their homes in the bottomlands …
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