Plants affect every aspect of life, and without them life would not be possible. In the 1930s, crews working for the University of Arkansas Museum recovered a drawstring bag from a bluff shelter in Benton County, Arkansas. Filled with nearly a liter of goosefoot seeds, the bag dates to AD 20 and was woven using rattlesnake master, one of the fiber plants present in this garden. In Arkansas's archeological record, not all plants were foods; many were important sources of fiber or raw material for tools, textiles, and basketry. Dry caves and rock shelters in northwest Arkansas have yielded preserved food plants as well as fragments of nets, shoes, bags, clothing, and basketry. Some of the plants in this garden have been identified as fiber sources for Woodland period textiles and basketry in Arkansas, reflecting the legacy of the prehistoric farmers of this place and the important role archeology serves in preserving that heritage.