Creekside Archaeobotanical Introduction
Creekside Archaeobotany is the study of plant macro-remains from archaeological sites. These macro-remains are items we see with the naked eye, such as seeds, grains, fragments of cereal chaff and fragments of charcoal and waterlogged wood. They help us learn about diet, medicine, craft, trade and can help to reconstruct the local environment, see how that environment has changed over time and how people adapted to those changes.