num_pages: 365
description: The latest thinking in Eastern Woodlands paleoethnobotany; a volume which belongs on the bookshelf of every archaeologist and paleoethnobotanist who is concerned with plants and culture in North America.--Deborah M. Pearsall University of Missouri The papers . . . provide succinct updates in a rapidly developing field [and] explore many facets of the cultural implications of plant remains taking paleoethnobotanical interpretation in provocative new directions.--Gary W. Crawford Erindale CollegeCombining broad chronological syntheses and regionally specific case studies this volume presents up-to-date findings about plant use by prehistoric and early historic peoples who lived in the Eastern Woodlands of North America. The contributors stress that current depictions of the subsistence strategies settlement patterns and social relations of these earliest Americans need to be reformulated to accommodate our new understanding of both the importance of native crops and the variability in peoples' foodways. ContentsIntroduction by C. Margaret Scarry The Importance of Native Crops during the Late Archaic and Woodland Periods by Richard A. Yarnell The Archaic Period and the Flotation Revolution by Jefferson Chapman and Patty Jo Watson Early and Middle Woodland Period Paleoethnobotany by Gayle J. Fritz Farmers of the Late Woodland by Sissel Johannessen Variability in Mississippian Crop Production Strategies by C. Margaret Scarry New Methods for Studying the Origins of New World The Squash Example by Deena S. Decker-Walters Reanalysis of Seed Crops from New Implications for Late Woodland Subsistence-Settlement Systems by Sandra L. Dunavan Plants and Cultural Biological and Ecological Responses to Wood Exploitation by Lee A. Newsom Cultural Change and The Middle Woodland and Late Woodland Transition in the Mid-Ohio Valley by Dee Anne Wymer Agricultural Risk and the Development of the Moundville Chiefdom by C. Margaret Scarry Food Dishes and Society in the Mississippi Valley by Sissel Johannessen Wood Overexploitation and the Collapse of Cahokia by Neal H. Lopinot and William I. Woods Climate Culture and Oneota Subsistence in Central Illinois by Frances B. King Old Customs and Traditions in New Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Archaeobotanical Data from La Florida by Donna L. Ruhl C. Margaret Scarry is staff archaeologist at the Program for Cultural Resource Assessment at the University of Kentucky and coauthor of Reconstructing Historic With an Example from Sixteenth-Century Spanish Florida.
language: English
title: Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands
publisher: University Press of Florida