People, plants, and landscapes studies in paleoethnobotany

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press 1997Description: xviii, 271 p. illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 081730827X
  • 9780817308278
Subject(s):
Contents:
The shaping of modern paleoethnobotany / Patty Jo Watson -- New perspectives on the paleoethnobotany of the Newt Kash shelter / Kristen J. Gremillion -- A three-thousand-year-old cache of crop seeds from Marble Bluff, Arkansas / Gayle J. Fritz -- Evolutionary changes associated with the domestication of Cucurbita pepo : evidence from eastern Kentucky / C. Wesley Cowan -- Anthropogenesis in prehistoric northeastern Japan / Gary W. Crawford -- Between farmstead and center : the natural and social landscape of Moundville / C. Margaret Scarry and Vincas P. Steponaitis -- An evolutionary ecology perspective on diet choice, risk, and plant domestication / Bruce Winterhalder and Carol Goland -- The ecological structure and behavioral implications of mast exploitation strategies / Paul S. Gardner -- Changing strategies of Indian field location in the early historic Southeast / Gregory A. Waselkov -- Interregional patterns of land use and plant management in native North America / Julia E. Hammett.
Holdings
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book Library of Archaeology & Prehistory 106.145 Pr ; MILIEU 73 Available RMCA4738

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-259) and index.

The shaping of modern paleoethnobotany / Patty Jo Watson -- New perspectives on the paleoethnobotany of the Newt Kash shelter / Kristen J. Gremillion -- A three-thousand-year-old cache of crop seeds from Marble Bluff, Arkansas / Gayle J. Fritz -- Evolutionary changes associated with the domestication of Cucurbita pepo : evidence from eastern Kentucky / C. Wesley Cowan -- Anthropogenesis in prehistoric northeastern Japan / Gary W. Crawford -- Between farmstead and center : the natural and social landscape of Moundville / C. Margaret Scarry and Vincas P. Steponaitis -- An evolutionary ecology perspective on diet choice, risk, and plant domestication / Bruce Winterhalder and Carol Goland -- The ecological structure and behavioral implications of mast exploitation strategies / Paul S. Gardner -- Changing strategies of Indian field location in the early historic Southeast / Gregory A. Waselkov -- Interregional patterns of land use and plant management in native North America / Julia E. Hammett.