Rivers of Change : Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America.
Title:
Rivers of Change : Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America.
Author:
Smith, Bruce D.
ISBN:
9780817384319
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (325 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction to the New Edition -- I. Rivers of Change -- 1. Introduction: Fields of Opportunity, Rivers of Change -- II. An Independent Center of Plant Domesticaion -- 2. The Floodplain Weed Theory fo Plant Domestication in Eastern North America -- 3. Independent Domesticaion of Indigenous Seed-Bearing Plants in Eastern North America -- 4. Is It an Indigene of a Foreigner? -- III. Premaize Farming Economies in Eastern North America -- 5. The Role of Chenpodium as a Domesticate in Mremaize Garden Systems of the Eastern United States -- 6. Chemopodium berlandieri ssp. jonesianum: Evidence for a Hopewellian Domesticate for Ash Cave, Ohio -- 7. The Economic Potential of Chemopodium verlandieri in Prehistoric Eastern North America -- 8. The Economic Potential of Iva annua in Prehistoric Eastern North America -- 9, Hopewellian Farmers of Eastern North America -- 10. In Search of Choupichoul, the Mystery Grain of the Natchez -- IV. Synthesis -- 11. Origins fo Agriculture in Eastern North America -- 12. Prehistoric Plant Husbandry in Eastern North America -- Index.
Abstract:
Organized into four sections, the twelve chapters of Rivers of Change are concerned with prehistoric Native American societies in eastern North America and their transition from a hunting and gathering way of life to a reliance on food production. Written at different times over a decade, the chapters vary both in length and topical focus. They are joined together, however, by a number of shared "rivers of change.".
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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