Chase W. Beck,^1,* Vaughn M. Bryanthttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5615-6803,^1,** Dennis L. Jenkins<sup>2,***

1</sup>aDepartment of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station Texas 77843, USA
²bMuseum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene, 97403-1224, USA

^*Chase W. Beck received a bachelor of science degree in biology from Hillsdale College and went on to achieve his master of science in biology from East Tennessee State University. He is currently working on his doctorate in anthropology at Texas A&M University. His research interests include plant domestication, ancient diets, forensic palynology and beans.
^**Vaughn M. Bryant received degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (BA in geography, MA in anthropology, PhD in botany) and currently teaches at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He is a professor of anthropology and the Director of the Texas A&M University Palynology Laboratory. He is also an adjunct professor of forensic sciences at the University of Nebraska. He is a former editor of Palynology and former president of AASP. Currently he is a Trustee and the Secretary of the AASP Foundation.
^***Dennis L. Jenkins is a senior research archaeologist at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, where he received his PhD in 1991. He has taught and directed the University of Oregon's Northern Great Basin archaeological field school in central Oregon since 1989. His research focuses on the first colonization of the Americas, obsidian sourcing and hydration, prehistoric shell bead trade, and prehistoric settlement-subsistence patterns of the Northern Great Basin.