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The Great Western Root - Construction and Consideration of Behavioral Chains Relative to Resource Management
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Master's Thesis
Anthropology Department
U. C. Riverside
1997
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Perideridia spp., commonly known as ipos or yampah, have provided major subsistence crops for groups throughout Western North America. Ethnobotanical material available concerning this use suggests that these groups, to enhance the resultant crop yield, might have practiced management strategies. These strategies included fire management, ground disturbance and selective harvesting techniques. Behavioral chains are constructed in this paper utilizing this ethnobotanical information. These chains, as well as a consideration of their potential biogeographical implications, should help in the paleoethnobotanical determination of past use and management of this resource.
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