EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Archaeoethnobotany involves three subjects namely, ethnology, archaeology and botany. This interdiscipline of ethnobotany studies the identification of plant materials from archaeological sites for studies on migration of human cultures, and origin, dispersal and domestication of crops, etc.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ethnobotany is the study of how people of a particular culture and region make use of indigenous (native) plants. Plants provide food, medicine, shelter, dyes, fibers, oils, resins, gums, soaps, waxes, latex, tannins, and even contribute to the air we breathe.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is ethnobotany and why does it matter? Ethno (as in ‘ethnic’) refers to people, culture, a culture’s collective body of beliefs, aesthetic, language, knowledge, and practice. Botany is the study of plants-from the tiniest fern or blade of grass to the tallest or oldest tree.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ethnobotany is at once a vital key to preserving the diversity of plants as well as to understanding and interpreting the knowledge by which we are, and will be, enabled to deal with them effectively and sustainably throughout the world. Thus ethnobotany is the science of survival”.