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Show macrobotanical assemblages from Basketmaker II to Pueblo III suggests that the residents were taking advantage of the economic and opportunistic plants that abound in disturbed habitats, such as cultivated fields. In particular, Chenopodium appears to have been an important resource from the Archaic period to the Pueblo III period, but it increased in importance, or at least presence, through time. Wild resources seem to have retained a significant role in the subsistence regime through time as well. It appears that by Pueblo III, the population in the area had intensified agricultural production but not to the complete detriment of a broad-based, possibly opportunistic gathering system that included a diverse and dietarily well rounded array of plant food resources. 10 V.10.10 |
