otanists, and archaeologists. My short symposium had turned into a day-long affair. During the months leading up to the conference, 1 responded to over 50 requests for information about the sym¬ posium from as far away as California and England. What all of this told me is that there is a lot of active paleoethnobotanical research going on the Northeast, and, just as importantly, it also told me that there is a great deal of interest in the results of that research. The Northeast has been almost invisible as paleoethnobotany has grown to be an important discipline in Eastern Woodlands archaeology. This volume is presented as an attempt to raise the visibility of paleoeth¬ nobotanical research being carried out in the Northeast. As such, although most of the chapters are concerned in one way or another with prehis¬ toric agriculture, there is no single paleoethnob¬ otanical theme guiding the volume's content. Not all of the symposium participants were able to contribute chapters to the volume, but a number of individuals active in Northeast pale¬ oethnobotanical research that did not participate in the symposium were able to contribute chap¬ ters. Original contributors to the symposium,