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Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America
Abstract
As a result of research carried out over the past decade, eastern North America now provides one of the most detailed records of the origins of agriculture available. Spanning a full three millennia, the transition from forager to farmer in eastern North America involved the domestication of four North American seed plants during the second millennium B.C., the initial emergence of food production economies based on local crop plants between 250 B.C. and A.D. 200, and the rapid and broad-scale shift to maize-centered agriculture during the three centuries from A.D. 800 to 1100.
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“Plants such as Chenopodium, known to have been widely culti¬ vated in the North American interior(Smith 1989), are commonly identified in samples from coastal sites, but they do not appear to be cultigens”
From Mobile Farmers of Pre-Contact Southern New England: The Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Evidence (1999) · cites this paper as Smith 1989
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“Initially exploited in its wild state, Chenopodium was brought under cultivation in much of the eastern half of the continent between 250 B.C. and A.D. 200(Smith 1989).”
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- Authors
- Smith, B. D.
- Affiliations
- Curator of North American Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1989-12-22
- Volume
- 246
- Issue
- 4937
- Pages
- 1566-1571
- ISSN
- 0036-8075
- 1095-9203
- Cited by
- 177
- References
- 0
- Language
- en
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