The subsistence economies of indigenous North American societies : a handbook / edited by Bruce D. Smith.

Covers all of the Holocene era and all of Canada, the US, and northern Mexico.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smith, Bruce D. (Bruce David), 1946-
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Lanham, Md. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press ; Published in cooperation with Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011.
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > Social life and customs.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Hunting.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Agriculture.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnobotany.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Ethnobiology.
Human ecology > North America.
Subsistence economy > North America.
Physical Description:xi, 616 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Indigenous North American socities and the environment / Bruce D. Smith
  • Plant use by Arctic and Subarctic indigenous peoples / Alestine Andre, Amanda Karst, and Nancy J. Turner
  • Archaeological and ethnographic evidence for indigenous hunting and fishing economies in the North American Arctic and Subarctic / Christyann M. Darwent
  • Plant use by Northwest Coast and Plateau indigenous peoples / Fiona Hamersley Chambers and Nancy J. Turner
  • Prehistoric Native American use of animals on the Northwest Coast and Plateau / Sarah K. Campbell and Virginia L. Butler
  • Archaeological and ethnographic evidence for indigenous plant use in California / Robert L. Bettinger and Eric Wohlgemuth
  • Native hunting adaptations in California : changing patterns of resource use from the Early Holocene to European contact / William R. Hildebrandt and Kimberly Carpenter
  • Subsistence through time in the greater Southwest / Karen R. Adams and Suzanne K. Fish
  • Prehistoric hunting and fishing patterns in the American Southwest / Steven R. James
  • Plant foods and foodways among the Great Basin's indigenous peoples / Catherine S. Fowler and David E. Rhode
  • Animal use in the Great Basin of North America : ethnographic and archaeological evidences / Joel C. Janetski
  • Patterns of plant use in the prehistoric Central and Southern Plains / Mary J. Adair and Richard R. Drass
  • Native American use of animals on the North American Great Plains / John R. Bozell, Carl R. Falk, and Eileen Johnson
  • The role of plants in Southeastern subsistence economies / Kristen J. Gremillion
  • Animals in Southeastern Native American subsistence economies / Heather A. Lapham
  • People and plant interactions in the Northeast / Gary W. Crawford
  • Animal use by Holocene aboriginal societies of the Northeast / Bonnie W. Styles
  • Native American domestication and husbandry of plants in eastern North America / C. Margaret Scarry and Richard A. Yarnell
  • The role of "tropical" crops in early North American agriculture / Gayle J. Fritz
  • Tobacco and smoking in native North America / Sandra L. Dunavan and Volney H. Jones
  • The diversity and origin of American dogs / Lynn M. Snyder and Jennifer A. Leonard
  • Domestication of the turkey in the American Southwest / Natalie D. Munro
  • Fusion gardens : Native North America and the Columbian exchange / Lee A. Newsom and D. Ann Trieu Gahr
  • Eurasian domesticated livestock in Native American economies / Burnet Pavao-Zuckerman and Elizabeth J. Reitz
  • Shaping the natural world : patterns of human niche construction by small-scale societies in North America / Bruce D. Smith.