From colonization to domestication : population, environment, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America /
Eastern North America is one of only a handful of places in the world where people first discovered how to domesticate plants. In this book, anthropologist Shane Miller uses two common, although unconventional, sources of archaeological data, stone tools and the distribution of archaeological sites,...
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Historical ecology and the origins of agriculture
- Environmental and chronological building blocks
- From projectile points to prey size
- Projectiles points and prey size in the lower Tennessee River Valley
- The ideal free distribution and landscape use in the Duck and lower Tennessee River valleys
- A boom-bust model for the origins of agriculture in eastern North America.