Feeding Cahokia : early agriculture in the North American heartland / Gayle J. Fritz.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Archaeology of food (Series)
Main Author: Fritz, Gayle (Author)
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
Series:Archaeology of food (Series)
Subjects:
Agriculture > Illinois > Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park > History.
Agriculture.
Illinois > Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xiv, 195 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Domesticating gourds and forests
  • 2. Sunflower and marshelder : late archaic period eastern crops
  • 3. Rise of the Eastern Agricultural Complex : terminal late archaic and early Woodland periods
  • 4. Seeds of exchange : the middle Woodland period
  • 5. Good late Woodland farmers in the American Bottom
  • 6. Feasting at early Cahokia
  • 7. Early Mississippian plant use
  • 8. Guardians of all vegetation
  • 9. Crop production : estimates of yields and dietary proportions
  • 10. How to feed Cahokia : cultivating fields and social relationships
  • 11. The farmers vote with their feet
  • 12. What can we learn from the past?.