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updated Nov 1, 2006 -- this site is undergoing reorganization right now!!

Dawn's Useful Links:

*Sites for Paleoethnobotanists, Ethnobotanists, Botanists
and others interested in Plants

*Professional Societies

*Regional Interests and Area Studies

*Fun and Informative Sites

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Learn how to take good notes and remember what you wrote: http://people.ucsc.edu/~mwax/resume/write/rubric/cornellnotesys/

Breaking News ! :

Eat, drink, and be merry in Ancient China

1. The Oldest Noodles Found in China
~ 4000 years old or dating to circa 2000 B.C. made out of millet flour
also read about it on the BBC page

2. Remains of Neolithic Chinese vessels with likely alcohol residues-
very exciting new work !!
also read about it on the NYtimes

Read more about detecting alcohol archaeologically
by Dr. Patrick McGovern:

The Wine Museum /Page

The Oldest Beer Page

Links & Sites for
Paleoethnobotanists, Ethnobotanists, Botanists and Others Interested In Plants:
(Most of these sites have searchable databases with latin names and common names,
many also include plant origins, growing conditions and photos.
Most of these wonderful sites also have fabulous links pages-check them out ! )

Gernot Katzer's Spice Pages: Info on & photos of 117 plants and the spices they make, including origin & chemical composition ~One of my favorite websites ever and so beautiful ! http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/%7Ekatzer/engl/index.html?frames

Native American Ethnobotany A HUGE searchable data base written and maintained by Dan Moerman. Hosted by U of Michigan. http://herb.umd.umich.edu/

Crow Canyon Plant Uses Database by Katharine D. Rainey and Karen R. Adams "A compendium of ethnographically documented uses of plants" esp. for the American southwest http://www.crowcanyon.org/ResearchReports/Archaeobotanical/Plant_Uses/compendium_A.asp

Crow Canyon Identification Criteria Database by Karen R. Adams and Shawn S. Murray- Compendium A of wood and Compendium B of non wood with photos of species found commonly in archaeological contexts http://www.crowcanyon.org/ResearchReports/Archaeobotanical/Plant_Identification/plant_identification.htm

Hort.Purdue Newcrop The best site for finding current info on plants grown in the US with both an index and search functions (latin and common names) http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/

“The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.” maintained by the US Department of Agriculture. http://plants.usda.gov/index.html

HortiPlex This "database contains plant images and data as well as links to information sources, images and vendors at other sites.” http://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/

Hort.Net This plant site has great photos in addition to the usual info http://www.hort.net/

The Curcurbit Network for everything about gourds and squashes including searchable database with photos. The first ones to report on the finding of wild ancestor of the bottle gourd!! http://www.cucurbit.org

Phytolith Database at University of Missouri's Paleoethnobotany Laboratory http://www.missouri.edu/~phyto/index.shtml

Cornell University's Poisonous Plants Home Page http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html

Carnivorous Plant Database http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi

“The International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) - www.ipgri.cgiar.org - is supporting the conservation and use of neglected and underutilized crop species.” http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/nus/home.htm

Crow Canyon Methods for Archaeobotanical Analysis: Principles and Methods by Karen R. Adams- learn the basics of paleoethnobotany http://www.crowcanyon.org/ResearchReports/Archaeobotanical/Principles_and_Methods/principles_methods.htm

Glossary of Latin Roots of Botanical Names ~ uncover the meaning of plant names http://garden-gate.prairienet.org/botrts.htm

ASIAN PLANT FOCUSED PAGES:

MULTILINGUAL MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE with a focus on Asian species and their common names in many languages http://gmr.landfood.unimelb.edu.au/Plantnames/

Database of Translated Papers on Rice This is a fabulous source for archaeology and genetics coming out of China, Japan, and Korea that are not translated elsewhere:http://www.carleton.ca/~bgordon/Rice/

A digital documentary film on Rice Agriculture in Nepal http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/rice/index.html

My own page with Asian Plant Species Found in Archaeological Contexts

A lovely enthusiast’s page of local Japanese flora with the usual info and photos http://www.huis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~nomura/E/eidx_a.html

Another lovely enthusiast’s page of Japanese flowers with the usual info and photos http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~vm5s-tjm/e/indexe.htm

2003 Oldest Rice Reported from Korea-

Note: Caution should be used with this report as there is no publication of this claim in a peer reviewed venue. The best archaeological evidence for the domestication of rice is from the Yangtze River Valley in China. Archaeological rice remains have been recovered at over a hundred sites in China. The earliest secure dates, AMS or direct radiocarbon dates, come from rice grains and phytoliths that generally date between 6000 and 5500 B.C. or 8000 to 7500 years ago (which is much younger than this claim for Korean rice). Most archaeologist today agree that there was only a single domestication event of rice that took place in China.

Additionally, oldest rice from Korea that has been peer reviewed, and is directly radio carbon dated, is dated to between 3000 and 1500 B.C. (see the work of Dr. Gyoung-Ah Lee)

Discovery channel article 10/23/03
BBC News 10/21/03
Conference article with site photos

Botanical Gardens:

http://www.mobot.org/ The Missouri Botanical Garden: Our world class botanical garden and research institute in St. Louis
http://www.nybg.org/ The New York Botanical Gardens
http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Non-profit seed companies and they also have wonderful gifts:

*Native Seeds/SEARCH is a nonprofit conservation organization working to conserve, distribute and document the adapted and diverse varieties of agricultural seed, their wild relatives and the role these seeds play in cultures of the American SW and NW Mexico.

*Eastern Native Seed Conservancy, providing heirloom seeds http://www.enscseeds.org/
*Seed Savers Exchange also providing heirloom seeds for sale and exchange http://seedsavers.org/Home.asp

Professional Societies

Society for American Archaeology (SAA) http://www.saa.org

Society of Ethnobiology http://ethnobiology.org/

Society for Economic Botany http://www.econbot.org/home.html

Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) http://www.archaeological.org/

Archaeological Conservancy ~ a way to help preserve our archaeological inheritance http://www.americanarchaeology.com/aawelcome.html

Shovel Bumms -The PLACE to find archaeological work http://www.shovelbums.org/

Arch Net- for everything archaeological: http://archnet.asu.edu/

The Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA): Conference in Korea, June 2004 http://www.seaa2004.org and archive page http://www.ancienteastasia.org/archives/seaa.htm

The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA) http://arts.anu.edu.au/arcworld/ippa/ippa.htm

Regional Interests and Area Studies

Korea and Japan

Learn about Okinawan Archaeology (Southern Japan) http://members.tripod.com/williamsem/index.htm
Learn about a site in Eniwa, Hokkaido, Japan near where my MA samples are from http://www.city.eniwa.hokkaido.jp/english/english.html#Karinba

Beautiful site from the Ainu Museum, with great pages on food and agriculture http://www.ainu-museum.or.jp/english/english.html
photos from Edo period Japan http://oldphoto.lb.nagasaki-u.ac.jp/unive/

Online gateway to Korea by the Korean Government http://www.korea.net/

Legends~ often important to understanding history
Sacred Texts online http://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/index.htm
Korean creation stories http://myhome.shinbiro.com/~mss1/legends.html

Himalayas: Nepal and Tibet

Archaeology of Pre-Buddhist Tibet http://zhangzhung.org/index2.htm

News from BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/
Multi-media studies and Journals http://www.digitalhimalaya.com/
Nepal Headlines on the Web http://news.thamel.com/
Learn about Visual studies and Buddhism http://www.uwec.edu/greider/BMRB/index.htm

Study Abroad Programs:
Study Abroad in Nepal through Cornell University: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/cuabroad/programchoices/general_info/nepal/index.asp

Study Abroad in Nepal through UW-Madison: http://www.wisc.edu/studyabroad/asia/nepal_kat.html
Study Abroad in Nepal through Pitzer: http://www.pitzer.edu/academics/ilcenter/external_studies/nepal/
Study Abroad in Tibet through SIT: http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/asia/tibet.html

Language Programs:

Intensive Summer Tibetan At Cornell: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/SouthAsia/intensive/tibetan/index.html
Intensive Summer Nepali at Cornell~ I studied at this program and would recommend it :) ! http://lrc.cornell.edu/asian/programs/summer/nepali
Shambhu and Banu Oja's*Nepali: A Beginner's Primer* http://lrc.cornell.edu/medialib/np/npb .

Learn about Tibetan http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/tibet.html
Learn about Nepali: http://babel.uoregon.edu/YLC/selfstudy/nepa_lang.html

News from the region

Using wireless In Nepal in 2004

Fun and Informative Sites:
In St. Louis

A source for any information on Washington University or St. Louis http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/%7Eanthro/links.html
The Wash U. Olin Library Link http://library.wustl.edu/.

New Mexico:Land of Blue Skies and Sunshine

The Best link to everything Santa Fe, my home town, and Northern New Mexico http://www.santafelibrary.org/nmlink.html

Etcetera Etcetera

http://www.care2.com/ My favorite FREE e-card location with donations for every card you send to environmental sponsors

In memory of Oolong the rabbit of Hokkaido, a very sweet site: http://www.fsinet.or.jp/~sokaisha/rabbit/rabbit.htm

The best clothing line and more for your favorite archaeologist, aka archaeology humor: http://www.cafeshops.com/shovelbums/135922

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Carnivorous Plant Database http://www.omnisterra.com/bot/cp_home.cgi