Reference Morehart, Lentz and Prufer2005 Morell-Hart Reference Morell-Hart2011 Morell-Hart et al. Reference McNeil, Burney and Burney2010 Morehart et al. Reference Lentz, Magee, Weaver, Jones, Tankersley, Hood, Islebe, Ramos Hernandez, Dunning, Lentz, Dunning and Scarborough2015 McClung de Tapia Reference McClung de Tapia1985 McNeil et al. Reference Kraft, Brown, Nabhan, Luedeling, Ruiz, d'Eeckenbrugge, Hijmans and Gepts2014 Lentz et al. In recent years, researchers have used new approaches that greatly expand the potential for recovery of evidence of plants and their uses (Anchukaitis and Horn Reference Anchukaitis and Horn2005 Hageman and Goldstein Reference Hageman and Goldstein2009 Kraft et al. Reference McNeil, Burney and Burney2010 McNeil Reference McNeil2012). Reference Lentz, Ramírez and Griscom1997, Reference Lentz, Magee, Weaver, Jones, Tankersley, Hood, Islebe, Ramos Hernandez, Dunning, Lentz, Dunning and Scarborough2015 McNeil et al. Reference Dussol, Elliott, Michelet and Nondédéo2017 Goldstein and Hageman Reference Goldstein, Hageman, Staller and Carrasco2009 Lentz et al. Reference Lentz, Magee, Weaver, Jones, Tankersley, Hood, Islebe, Ramos Hernandez, Dunning, Lentz, Dunning and Scarborough2015 Matthews Reference Matthews1984 Piperno Reference Piperno, Bush, Flenley and Gosling2007 Rue Reference Rue1987, Reference Rue1989), and forest management and ecology (Anchukaitis and Horn Reference Anchukaitis and Horn2005 Dussol et al. Reference Simms, Berna and Bey2013), agricultural practices and landscape (Baldi Reference Baldi2011 Dickau Reference Dickau, Van Derwarker and Peres2010 Lentz et al. Reference Sheets, Dixon, Guerra and Blanford2011 Simms et al. Reference Piperno, Ranere, Holst and Hansell2000 Sheets et al.
Reference Lentz, Beaudry-Corbett, Reyna de Aguilar and Kaplan1996 Piperno and Holst Reference Piperno and Holst1998), the importance of root crops in ancient societies (Cagnato and Ponce Reference Cagnato and Ponce2017 Piperno Reference Piperno and Zeder2006 Piperno et al. Reference Ranere, Piperno, Holst, Dickau and Iriarte2009), the relationship between plants and artifact use (Lentz et al. Reference Perry, Dickau, Zarrillo, Holst, Pearsall, Piperno, Berman, Cooke, Rademaker and Ranere2007 Pickersgill Reference Pickersgill2007 Piperno Reference Piperno2009 Ranere et al. Critical work has been accomplished on the origins and spread of cultigens such as maize (Perry et al. The development of ethnobotanical studies in pre-Hispanic Central America has been slower than other regions, despite important foundational research completed at sites from southern Mexico through Panama. This presents an opportunity to begin to develop an understanding of ethnoecology at Puerto Escondido, here defined as the dynamic relationship between affordances provided in a botanical landscape and the impacts of human activities on that botanical landscape. Here, we address botanical practices “in the home,” such as foodways, medicinal practices, fiber crafting, and ritual activities, and those “close to home,” such as agricultural and horticultural practices, forest management, and other engagements with local and distant ecologies. By examining chipped-stone tools, ceramics, sediments from artifact contexts, and macrobotanical remains, we advance complementary inquiries. We demonstrate the effectiveness of using multiple methods in concert to interpret ethnobotanical practice in the past.
This paper presents a case study from Puerto Escondido, located in the lower Ulúa River valley of Caribbean coastal Honduras. In recent years, researchers in pre-Hispanic Central America have used new approaches that greatly amplify and enhance evidence of plants and their uses.
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