num_pages: 320
description: Awarded the James Henry Breasted Prize by the American Historical Association, this volume is the first comprehensive consideration of eastern North America as an independent, primary center of plant domestication and agriculture. Focusing on data derived from the expanding discipline of archaeobotany, Bruce D. Smith presents a provocative alternative theory of how prehistoric North American societies developed from hunting and gathering systems to food-producing economies. Eastern North America remains one of the world's best-documented independent centers of domestication and will clearly be the focus of sustained and rewarding research for many years to come. 
language: English
title: Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America
titlecomplete: Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America
genres: Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 3
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: James Henry Breasted Prize
publisher: University Alabama Press