Starch remains and stone boiling in the Texas panhandle Part II: Identifying wildrye (Elymus spp.)

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 56, Issue 218, 2011, Pages 109-119

  Perry, Linda ^a,b   Michael Quigg, J ^c  

^a Foundation for Archaeobotanical Research in Microfossils   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TRC Environmental Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Burned rocks; Starch identification; Subsistence; Texas panhandle; Wildrye

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857088908     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/pan.2011.011     Document Type: Article

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