“wild rice naturally sheds ripe seeds,
shattering them to the ground”
I used to harvest wild fice as a kid in
Minnesota. It is accomished using a canoe
and two straight “sticks”, in shallow
water, on our private ponds.
The amazing thing was the number of ducks
that would surround the canoe looking
for any rice dropped in the water.
Any rice plant I’ve seen, caught on dry
land due to receding water levels, would
die rather quickly, and not produce any
rice.
The visible sign on stone tools that were used for harvesting plants is called, “sickle sheen.” Stone tools used to cut meat don’t have the sheen. Pretty cool article. Thanks for posting it.
KingLudd has had an avocational interest in stone tool replication and flintkanpping for almost 30 years. I’m hoping this early technology gets popular again. Until then, Spyderco.
Phytolith - the lab hired a soil scientist on a part time basis. One day we were discussing historic prairies. He said that he could tell what grasses had been growing by microscopic examination of the soil, identifying the silicon phytoliths which do not age in particular.