From colonization to domestication : population, environment, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America / D. Shane Miller.

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"Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. 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, ston...

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Main Author: Miller, D. Shane (Darcy Shane), 1982- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Lithic people > Agriculture > Southern States.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Agriculture > Southern States.
Agriculture, Prehistoric > Southern States.
Agriculture > Southern States > Origin.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Southern States > Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Southern States.
Environmental archaeology > Southern States.
Social archaeology > Southern States.
Southern States > Antiquities.
Agriculture > Origin.
Agriculture, Prehistoric.
Antiquities.
Environmental archaeology.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of North America > Agriculture.
Indians of North America > Antiquities.
Paleo-Indians > Agriculture.
Social archaeology.
Southern States.
Physical Description:xvii, 198 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.