Paleobotany and Pollen Data

Dr. Michael W. Diehl has decades of experience with paleoethnobotanical identifications and pollen interpretations, allowing him to provide unrivaled paleobotanical services and archaeological interpretation at competitive rates.

Dr. Diehl is a preeminent scholar on matters of precontact 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; precontact food storage in Tucson; the organization of late precontact 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 supports excavation projects by assisting in sample selection for AMS dating.

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.