Plains Anthropological Society 2021 Distinguished Service Award Mary Adair

Abstract

Dr. Mary Adair has had a significant impact on our understanding of the human past in the Great Plains. Her specialization as a paleoethnobotanist has given us insight into the most basic of human needs – food – but has gone well beyond a simple recognition of what was eaten where and when and has instead demonstrated the importance of how plant food acquisition and production has affected human behavior.