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DESCRIPTION:“Post-Contact Paleoethnobotany in California: Studying Indigenous 
 Landscape Management Practices Along the Central Coast,” a talk by 
 Georgie DeAntoni, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Cruz.\n\nWithin California 
 archaeology, paleoethnobotany—the study of plant remains—has most 
 commonly been applied to pre-colonial contexts. However, much can be 
 learned by using paleoethnobotany to study the post-contact period, 
 particularly in examining questions of landscape change and Indigenous 
 resilience. Using the smallest traces of human pasts to tell stories of 
 life and plant use, paleoethnobotany can be used to understand how 
 landscapes have been managed in the past, evaluate how territories have 
 changed ecologically following colonialism, examine how Indigenous cultures 
 persisted in light of environmental shifts, and explore how communities may 
 reintroduce traditional management practices in the present.\n\nThis talk 
 will provide an overview of the collaborative archaeobotanical work 
 DeAntoni has conducted throughout the greater San Francisco Bay area, 
 highlighting the ways that this archaeological subdiscipline can be used in 
 minimally invasive, sustainable research projects moving forward. 
 Specifically, DeAntoni will discuss the value of wood charcoal studies as 
 well as seed identification for ecological restoration and Indigenous 
 landscape management efforts. Utilizing strategic partnerships between 
 tribes, land managers, and academic institutions, studies of historic 
 landscapes and environmental change provide an opportunity to awaken 
 dormant Indigenous cultural and natural resource management practices in 
 ancestral territories. Paleoethnobotany is one course of study which can 
 contribute to these conversations.\n\nGeorgie DeAntoni is a second year 
 Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. Her 
 research examines Indigenous responses to colonization along the California 
 coast, using the study of archaeological plant remains to trace landscape 
 management practices and ecological change. With archaeological experience 
 in Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz counties, DeAntoni’s work 
 is inspired by collaborative and community-based research projects. 
 DeAntoni earned her B.A. degree in both Anthropology and Native American 
 Studies from UC Berkeley in 2015, where she wrote a senior honors thesis 
 entitled, “Charcoal Identification as Means of Central California 
 Landscape Reconstruction: A Paleoethnobotanical Study of TCR-11.”\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/02/18815408.php
SUMMARY:Post-Contact Paleoethnobotany in California
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange\n1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/02/18815408.php
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