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Much of the archaeobotanical data in this book and funding for the excavations that produced them were made possible because of the support of Christopher S. Peebles and the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University . I am very grateful both for Chris’s personal support and for his long-term commitment to Oliver research at the Laboratory. Additional institutional funding came from the Of¤ce of Research and the University Graduate School, Indiana University, which provided a Grant-in-Aid-of-Dissertation for excavation and analysis at the Heaton Farm site. Robert McCullough and Brian Redmond, the team who started the latest phase of Oliver investigations, have generously shared information and ideas. They were also unfailingly patient during my early years at Indiana, as I learned to master an intellectual discipline and a lifestyle very different from what I’d known as an of¤ce worker on the East Coast. This research bene¤ted greatly from the comments of my dissertation committee, especially C. Margaret Scarry, in whose laboratory I learned the basics of macrobotanical analysis. I am also grateful to Stephen Ball, Rex Garniewicz, Mike Strezewski, Mary Pirkl, Staffan Peterson, and Laura Pate for wide-ranging conversations about archaeology, history, food, and drink. Those who operated the ®otation machines of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology during my time there deserve special commendation. After two summers I was happy to turn the ®otation process over to the talented Tim Wright, who spent many hours standing in ®ip-®ops on the storm drain grate behind the laboratory, working over a machine only three feet high. Cindy Adkins, Devin Fishel, and several others also achieved exemplary separation of ®otation samples in later years, when their work and their backs were aided by a newer—and taller—machine. Laboratory jobs may include amenities such as access to restaurants and restrooms that ¤eld assignments lack, but Acknowledgments power outages in summer, frozen hoses in winter, forever-wrinkled ¤ngers, and my constant insistence on perfect separation cannot have been always easy. Several Indiana archaeologists read and commented on portions of this manuscript. Special thanks are due to Don Cochran, Beth McCord, Brian Redmond, and Bob McCullough for improving chapter 3. Their own works, cited many times herein, form much of the basis for current understandings of Late Prehistoric Indiana. Andy White and Bob McCullough responded generously to importunate requests for data and shared unpublished ¤ndings from Castor Farm (12H3). Their report on that site should be available soon after the publication of this book through the IPFW (Indiana University–Purdue University at Fort Wayne) homepage at http://www.ipfw.edu/archsurv/Home. html. David Stothers, another major contributor to current interpretations of Indiana archaeology, graciously shared unpublished manuscripts, as did Andrew Schneider. I am grateful to Bill Green and Kris Gremillion, whose comments vastly improved the quality of this work. Judith Knight, at the University of Alabama Press, was a calm and gentle guide through the early stages of publication, and Dawn Hall provided excellent copyediting. All remaining problems are entirely the responsibility of the author. On the home front, special thanks go to members of the Shady Hollow Babysitting Cooperative, especially Heather Freeman, Ramona Pope, Julia Ragsdale, and Aida Rice, for emergency childcare and for listening with apparent interest to my impromptu lectures on such motherly topics as Chippewa weaning methods. Karine Foucher also stepped in more than once with lastminute babysitting services. My husband, Jim Buhler, provided logistical support of all kinds and excellent advice on the practical aspects of publication. For his emotional support, and that of our daughter, Judith, I am grateful beyond words. Finally our cat, Kate, deserves special mention—not because she was particularly helpful, but because she took such an intense interest in the project, chasing the computer cursor and shedding fur over nearly every phase of manuscript production. xiv / Acknowledgments Boundary Conditions ...

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