0 a plant that grows in the hot, dry parts of the southern US and South America. There are many different types of agave and the plants have thick long or rounded leaves with sharp points on them, and tall flowers. --
Agave fibers provide the structural support of the plant's fleshy leaf.
Cotton and agave fibers and at least two other tentatively identified fiber types are associated with the interments and represent clothing, burial shrouds, and personal accoutrements.
Later, as they left the mission and were walking home, he ordered her to carry a pot containing mescal, a distilled alcoholic beverage made from agave.
Agave is the most common fiber occurring in both chambers.
Agave fiber appears principally as aggregates of unwoven bundles of sclerified fibers that occur in various states of decomposition, either purposeful or postmortem.
It is still not clear whether the range of treatments agave fibers would have received would consistently produce the variation exhibited by these specimens.
The agave fibers we have identified to date appear to have been extracted using a variety of processing techniques.
Therefore, most agave plants will be unproductive in any given year and will occupy a good deal of planting space.
