Question

history of ethnobotany​

Answer 1

Answer:

the practice of ethnobotany is thought to have much earlier origins in the first century AD when a Greek physician by the name of Pedanius Dioscorides wrote an extensive botanical text detailing the medical and culinary properties of "over 600 mediterranean plants" named De Materia Medica

Answer 2

Explanation:

The word “Ethnobotany” was first introduced by John W. Harshberger, in 1895 a botany professor at the University of Pennsylvania to designate plants used by primitive and aboriginal people: From “ethno”means - study of people and “botany” means study of plants.