*The first book to bring together archaeological plant and animal analysis *Integrating different methodologies and issues from zooarchaeology and paleoethnobotany *Features a number of new voices in the field as well as established scholars In recent years, scholars have emphasized the need for more holistic subsistence analyses, and collaborative publications towards this endeavor have become more numerous in the literature. However, there are relatively few attempts to qualitatively integrate zooarchaeological (animal) and paleoethnobotanical (plant) data, and even fewer attempts to...

This book presents a major cultural phase that has been virtually overlooked in professional literature. The editors bring together discussions of recent research by themselves and others at Archaic shell-bearing sites in the western MCRV, combined with contemporary examinations of prior investigations, which until now have been difficult for scholars to access.