An Interdisciplinary-Botanical Perspective for Cultural Resource Management: A Definition and the Application of Culturally Significant Plants in Identification, Interpretation, and Evaluation for the National Register of Historic Places

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Creator	Burk, Rene F.
Abstract	Cultivated plants are often living artifacts that can aid in evaluation of historic or cultural landscapes. However, a working definition for “culturally significant plant” is currently lacking in the guidance literature for the cultural resource management practitioners. Based on a review of the literature on cultivated plants as indicators of historically and culturally significant sites a suggested working definition is provided. A discussion of how vegetation can assist archaeologists in the identification and interpretation, as a biotic cultural resource, a contributing feature, and a diagnostic tool for evaluation using the National Register of Historic Places eligibility framework is presented.
License	Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Resource Type	Masters Thesis
Date Issued	2020-11-12
Degree Level	Master's
Degree Name	Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (M.A.I.S.)
Degree Field	Botany and Plant Pathology Applied Anthropology Geography
Degree Grantor	Oregon State University
Commencement Year	2021
Advisor	Jones, Julia Kellar, Brenda M. Stone, Jeffrey
Committee Member	McLaughlin, Katherine
Rights Statement	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
Related Items	Dataset
Publisher	Oregon State University
Peer Reviewed	No
Language	English [eng]

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