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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fritz, Gayle, author.

Series:

Archaeology of food (Series)

Archaeology of food

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park--History.

Agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, 2019.

Summary:

Winner of the 2020 Society for Economic Botany's Mary W.Klinger Book Award An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia Agriculture is rightly emphasized as the center of the economy in most studies of Cahokian society, but the focus is often predominantly on corn.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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?

References Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780817392178

0817392173

OCLC:

1081030892