[SEMCO] The Specialized Field of Archaeobotany

[Teresa Izzo]

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PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELEASE 
FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:
March 28, 
2018 
Teresa Izzo
                                                                        508-896-3867 
ext. 137
                                                            tizzo at ccmnh.org

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presents
Digging Into the Past
“The Specialized Field of Archaeobotany”


BREWSTER, MA ­ The Cape Cod Museum of Natural 
History in Brewster presents “The Specialized 
Field of Archaeobotany” with Katharine Reinhart Friday, April 27, 2018 at 1pm.


   One of the least discussed specialized fields 
of study within archaeology is archaeobotanical 
analysis. Despite being a neglected form of 
investigation, archaeobotany has the potential to 
provide researchers with invaluable data that can 
offer insights into such things as to what our 
ancestors were eating, using for medicine, and 
even give researchers a timetable for when a site 
was occupied. Katharine will be using case 
studies from her own experiences in historical 
archaeology to explain what archaeobotany is, 
what it can tell us, and why this is such an important vein of research.



Katharine has been doing historical archaeology 
with an archaeobotanical focus since her first 
field school excavation of an antebellum slave 
cabin site in western Tennessee in 2012. After 
graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 
Anthropology/Sociology from Rhodes College in 
Memphis, she began pursuing a career in New 
England cultural resource management as a field 
archaeologist in 2014. She has also completed 
contract archaeobotanical analysis for the 
Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center and 
the Public Archaeology Lab, Inc., and continues 
to operate as a contract archaeobotanist from her 
home. Originally from southern Ohio, Katharine 
currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island and 
works for Archaeological & Historical Services, Inc. in Mansfield, Connecticut.

  Free with Museum Admission

  For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.

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Teresa Izzo
Program Coordinator
Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
869 Main St./Rte. 6A
Brewster, MA 02631
508-896-3867 x137
508-896-8844 - fax 
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