Ethnobotany

Things I learned in my internship…

Things I am learning in my internship: Corn was sacred to the Mayan, they had specific corn for ritual, offering, and to actually eat. They also gave offering of Pine, and some sort of endocarp that has yet to be identified. Many times they were food offerings wrapped in a textile and burned in a cave. I understand the difference between chard corn, endocarp and wood. Most exciting! I get to touch these things in fact i’m bent over a microscope sorting them out so that we can analyze the data. I didn’t spend as much time in the lab as I would have liked this semester, however my Ethnobotany class was very enjoyable and I did learn some new things. So here is to two semesters of Ethnobotany education!