Background Plant domestication occurred independently in four different regions of the
Americas. In general, different species were domesticated in each area, though a few …

This article discusses paleoethnobotanical research and results presented in the recent
literature. Although archaeobotany is a fairly recent addition to the study of the past, it now …

This new edition of the definitive work on doing paleoethnobotany brings the book up to date
by incorporating new methods and examples of research, while preserving the overall …

The transition between wild plant forms and domesticated species can be considered an
evolutionary adaptation by plants in response to a human driven ecology. Evidence from …

Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia,
Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching …

This book shows that Holocene human ecosystems are complex adaptive systems in which
humans interacted with their environment in a nested series of spatial and temporal scales …

Although geneticists and archaeologists continue to make progress world-wide in
documenting the time and place of the initial domestication of a growing number of plants …

The emergence of agriculture during the Formative period in the southern Lake Titicaca
Basin played a crucial role in the development of the region's first complex societies. Our …

Despite the fact that small seeds are often inefficient to exploit, they are consumed and
sometimes cultivated in many parts of the world, including eastern North America. Foraging …

Middle Archaic earthen mound complexes in the lower Mississippi valley are remote
antecedents of the famous but much younger Poverty Point earthworks. Watson Brake is the …