One of the challenges in evaluating arguments for extending the conceptual framework of
evolutionary biology involves the identification of a tractable model system that allows for an …

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 …

The status of eastern North America as an independent center of plant domestication has
recently been called into question by a number of genetic and archaeological studies, which …

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 …

Thousands of years before the maize-based agriculture practiced by many Native American
societies in eastern North America at the time of contact with Europeans, there existed a …

The development of agricultural societies, one of the most transformative events in human
and ecological history, was made possible by plant and animal domestication. Plant …

Genetic modification (GM) of crop plants is frequently described by its proponents as a
continuation of the ancient process of domestication. While domestication, crop breeding …