Plants, People, and Culture
Plants, People, and Culture Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Creating massive sea craft from plants, indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the…
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Plants, People, and Culture
Is it possible that plants have shaped the very trajectory of human cultures? Creating massive sea craft from plants, indigenous shipwrights spurred the navigation of the world's oceans. Using riveting stories of fieldwork in remote villages, two of the world's leading ethnobotanists argue that our past and our future are deeply intertwined with plants.
One out of four prescription drugs, for example, were discovered from plants used by traditional healers. Today, indigenous agricultural innovations continue to feed, clothe, and heal the world's population. Objects as common as baskets for winnowing or wooden boxes to store feathers were ornamented with traditional designs demonstrating the human ability to understand our environment and to perceive the cosmos.
Throughout the world, the human body has been used as the ultimate canvas for plant-based adornment as well as indelible
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