Paleobotany & Pollen Data

Dr. Michael W. Diehl’s 26 years of paleoethnobotanical identifications and pollen interpretations allow him to provide unrivaled paleobotanical services and archaeological interpretation at competitive rates.

Dr. Diehl is a preeminent scholar on matters of prehistoric and historic food selection, foraging, and food production, and the relationships among environment, ethnicity, and food consumption.

His recent publications in peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and book chapters address such widely varied topics as changes in precipitation in southern Arizona and the social and economic responses to those changes; relationships among pollen, aquatic microfauna, and prehistoric food storage in Tucson; the organization of late prehistoric Apache land use in central Arizona; the introduction of cultigens to the Southwest; change through time in subsistence strategies in Arizona and New Mexico; Apache, Hohokam, and Mimbres Mogollon subsistence; and historic expressions of ethnic identity in food consumption.

Dr. Diehl maintains an in-house laboratory and comparative collection, and he is available on an as-needed basis for sample analysis, as well as for pre-bid consultation and inclusion on proposals. Email us for availability, scheduling, and current rates.