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Messner compiles ethnographic information about the use and processing of food/medicinal plants from the Mid-Atlantic, and develops critically needed identification criteria for use in analyzing starch grains from those plants. It will be an invaluable reference and teaching tool, and should have a long shelf life as identification criteria are unlikely to change. --C. Margaret Scarry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This work is a fine contribution to the ethnobotanical and archaeological literature and will enhance and speed the application of starch grain analysis in eastern North America, a region that has lagged behind the rest of the New World in embracing this exciting approach. --Deborah Pearsall, University of Missouri Messner compiles ethnographic information about the use and processing of food/medicinal plants from the Mid-Atlantic, and develops critically needed identification criteria for use in analyzing starch grains from those plants. It will be an invaluable reference and teaching tool, and should have a long shelf life as identification criteria are unlikely to change. --C. Margaret Scarry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This work is a fine contribution to the ethnobotanical and archaeological literature and will enhance and speed the application of starch grain analysis in eastern North America, a region that has lagged behind the rest of the New World in embracing this exciting approach. Deborah Pearsall, University of Missouri

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Timothy C. Messner is a research collaborator in the Archaeobiology Program, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, and a research associate with the Center for American Archaeology, Kampsville, Illinois.

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