Please check the attached article.

And this one.

Thanks for the information. We are interested in knowing at what level the information exists and is available, for all kinds of archaeological plant remains - assemblage, cultural, and dietary included. The Neotoma db appears to be the kind of resource we were wondering about. It looks as if they eventually intend to have this data on their website.

There is such for maize: ancientmaize.com

Not so useful for you (this is for the Near East), there are a few sources:

Here is one that is not updated, but good for up to about 2004. It is particularly useful for its mapping function:

http://www.ademnes.de/ (Simone Riehl, Archaeobotanical database of Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern sites)

There are several bibliographies:

http://www.archaeobotany.de/ (Helmut Kroll, Literature on archaeological remains of cultivated plants 1981-2004); searchable by taxon

And I maintain bibliographies for the Near East: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~nmiller0/biblio.html

Probably not that useful for you, but this is one of my personal favourites;

Phytochemical and genetic analyses of ancient cannabis from Central Asia, Russo et al, 2008.

http://jxb.oxfordjournals.org/content/59/15/4171.full

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You may find useful stuff here;

http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/origins-of-agriculture/origins-database

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This is from Crow Canyon in Colorado;

http://www.crowcanyon.org/ResearchReports/ResearchDatabase/database_home.asp

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Maryland;

http://www.jefpat.org/archeobotany/

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Forida Museum of Natural History has links to several North American databases here;

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/paleobotany/paleobotanylinks.htm

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Hope some of this is of use,

Good luck!

Paul.

You coud enquire from the evolutionary Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand South Africa and such places as the Smithsonian Institute and Florida Museum of Natural history.

Just appeared: http://emuweb.fieldmuseum.org/botany/search_mesoamerican.php

Thanks for the link, Ines.

The Museum of Natural History in France has a very nice looking database that includes plant and animal remains found at archaeological sites. Searching is by species or site.

http://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/79734/tab/archeo?lg=en

Dishes and storage equipment at archeological sites can contains remains of starch. This allows you to identify the staple crops used at that site. See the following link for an expert system on identification of starch: https://www.wageningenur.nl/en/show/Determinator-Starch-module.htm .

Hi yes, I am part of the Neotoma working group and we are planning to start developing the archaeobotanical component, mirroring the one already in place for plant macroremains (paleobotanical) as well as the faunal compoent, which now encompasses the original Faunmap.  We are meeting in a couple of weeks to hone the final components to add the packrat midden database.  If any of you would be interested to join me as part of the working group/team to develop and integrate the archaeobotany, please let me know.  This will begin with the North American and Caribbean records, but we very much want ultimately to encompass South/Central American, European, and other records, just as has been the case with pollen and some of the other data sets.  I can be reached at [email protected] if you would like to contact me for more information and such.  Best, Lee

Try John Hart at the New York State Museum for his info on the Northeast

Check with Tim Messner, Paleobotanist now at SUNY-Potsdam, did his PhD on New jersey/Mid-Atlantic Archaeobotany including starch grain analysis on ceramics and other artifacts--his book "Acorns a nd Bitter Roots" has some archival data