Food Production in Native North America : An Archaeological Perspective / Kristen J. Gremillion.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gremillion, Kristen J., 1958- author.

Series:

SAA current perspectives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Food.

Indians of North America--Agriculture.

Antiquities.

Indians of North America.

North America.

North America--Antiquities.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations, maps ;

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : SAA Society for American Archaeology, The SAA Press 2018.

Summary:

This book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series provides a broad overview of the development of agriculture and other forms of resource management by the Native peoples of North America. Its geographical scope includes most of the continents temperate zone, but regions where agriculture took hold are emphasized. Temporally, this volume looks back as far as the first indigenous domesticates that emerged in the midcontinental region and follows the story into the era of European conquest.

Contents:

Food production in native North America: an introduction

A coevolutionary continuum

The eastern agricultural complex

Origins and development of maize-based agriculture in the southwest

The rise of the three sisters: maize in the eastern woodlands

Food production without farming

A world of difference: food production in postcontact North America

Synthesis

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-932839-58-4

OCLC:

1381092916