Event Title: Texas Plants and Indigenous Landscapes: Insights from Archaeology, Boerne
VMS-AT: AT: Native Plant Society of Texas (Enter AT#, Class Title as posted, Name of NPSOT Chapter, and Presenter)
Comments: AT24-196, Texas Plants and Indigenous Landscapes: Insights from Archaeology, Boerne Chapter, Presenter: Leslie Bush PhD (AT=1.0)
Event Date: 5/07/2024
Event Time: 7:00p-8:00p
Event Summary:
The presentation inspects pre-Columbian archaeological sites in Texas, with special attention to how sites are located in relation to natural features of the landscape, what plants would have been available to site inhabitants, what plants were recovered in archaeological investigations, what purposes they might have served, and how such knowledge is inferred.
Event Description:
The presentation will cover four to five pre-Columbian archaeological sites from across the state with special attention to how sites are located in relation to natural features of the landscape, what plants would have been available to site inhabitants, what plants were recovered in archaeological investigations, what purposes they might have served, and how such knowledge is inferred.
Monthly NPSOT meeting Boerne Chapter
Chapter Meeting – 6:00pm – Social Time; 6:45pm – Chapter Announcements, followed by the Speaker
About presenter: Dr. Leslie L. Bush is a paleoethnobotanist , an archaeologist who specializes in identifying bits of plants preserved on archaeological sites, usually in the form of charcoal and occasionally as waterlogged or desiccated plant parts. Through her consulting practice she is currently involved with investigations associated with Lake Ralph Hall in East Texas, Webb County road improvements in South Texas, and a small pueblo site in New Mexico.
Cost: No cost
Register @: No registration needed
Event Location:
Cibolo Center for Conservation Auditorium
100 City Park Road
Boerne, Texas 78006
Presenter: Leslie Bush PhD
Contact Information: Bill Magner 305-509-0941 or
wmagner@yahoo.com
Organization Website: https://www.npsot.org/chapters/boerne/
Sponsoring Organization:
Boerne Chapter, Native Plant Society of Texas