tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-190598192009-09-22T23:45:29.665-07:00Archaeobotany Net is an independent site operated by the Research Cooperative and aimed at catching, organising, and presenting fragments of information related to plants, people, and the past. Our currently preferred net is a coconut-fibre casting net.Peter Matthewsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19059819.post-1132229281396212522005-11-17T04:03:00.000-08:002008-01-15T04:42:06.734-08:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8054/1764/1600/DSC04664ohara.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/8054/1764/320/DSC04664ohara.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> Welcome to <b>Archaeobotany Net</b><br /><br />This blog will introduce and comment on archaeobotanical research independently of formal research organisations or academic societies, and will support academic, artistic, practical, local, community, urban, rural, regional, country, national, international, indigenous, non-indigenous, migrant, resident, personal, public, and popular interests in archaeobotany, ethnobotany and ethnobiology. There are many fish in the sea, and many birds in the forest.<br /><br />Copyright for all writing and images on this site belongs to the contributors concerned, or the primary sources cited, but may be used for personal and not-for-profit purposes, with suitable acknowledgement. If in doubt, or if you believe that material should be removed or acknowledged in another manner, please contact "Archaeobotany Net" (email: researchcooperative at gmail dot com). <br /><br />Unless otherwise stated, all images and texts are copyright of the Research Cooperative, an invention of Dr P. J. Matthews, National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.<br /><br />Image: New Year decoration on the gate of a Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan. The plant is 'saka-ki' (<i>Cleyera japonica</i> (fam. Camelliaceae), a 'god' or 'spirit' tree that is used throughout the year in Shinto shrines.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/19059819-113222928139621252?l=archaeobotany.blogspot.com'/></div>Peter Matthewsnoreply@blogger.com0