This guide contains bibliographic references and links to internet resources for ethnobotany and indigenous plant use.

Recommended Reading:

The Andean Cocaine Industry by Patrick L. Clawson, et al 1998

Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture: Pesticides and the Sustainability of Andean Potato Production by Charles C. Crissman (Editor), et al 1997

Earth Medicine-Earth Food: Plant Remedies, Drugs, and Natural Foods of the North American Indians by Michael A. Weiner 1991

Ethnobotany: Evolution of a Discipline by Richard Evans Schultes, et al (Editors) 1995

Flesh of the Gods: The Ritual Use of Hallucinogens by Peter T. Furst 1990

Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel E. Moerman 1998

Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures by Deborah M. Pearsall 1989

People, Plants, and Landscapes: Studies in Paleoethnobotany by Kristen J. Gremillion (Editor) 1997

Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion by R. Gordon Wasson, et al. 1992

Plants, People, and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany by Michael J. Balick et al. 1997

Sacred Plant Medicine: Explorations in the Practice of Indigenous Herbalism by Stephen Harrod Buhner 1996

Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany and Use by by Harriet V. Kuhnlein & Nancy J. Turner 1992

Links:

1. Ancient Raised Field Agriculture: Applied Archaeology in the Bolivian Amazon
2. The Chilca Valley, Peru Explore the prehistory and ecology of Peru's Chilca Valley. This site contains information on the origins of sedentism and agriculture in the Andes. Featured sites include Paloma, Kiqche and Tres Ventanas.
3. Desert Land - Rami Sajdi's research into the foundations of Bedouin shamanism and ethnobotany as well as ethology of Bedouins gave him a good understanding of the Bedouin mind.
4. The Ethnobotany Laboratory houses extensive collections of domesticated plants from around the world as well as specimens recovered from archaeological sites. Curator Dr. Richard Ford.
5. Native American Ethnobotany Database: Foods, Drugs, Dyes, and Fibers of Native North American Peoples.
6. The Society for Economic Botany (SEB) was established in 1959 to foster and encourage scientific research, education, and related activities on the past, present, and future uses of plants, and the relationship between plants and people, and to make the results of such research available to the scientific community and the general public through meetings and publications.
7. Plants of the Machiguenga - examines the ethnobotany, anthropology, and wildlife of this Amazonian tribe in Parque Nacional del Manu, Peru.