Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of illustrations
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • The Processes of Plant Food Production in Prehistoric North America / Richard I. Ford
  • Adaptive Strategies of Archaic Cultures of the West Gulf Coastal Plain / Dee Ann Story
  • Some Botanical Considerations of the Early Domesticated Plants North of Mexico / Charles B. Heiser, Jr
  • Early Cultivated Cucurbits in Eastern North America / Frances B. King
  • The Impact of Early Horticulture in the Upland Drainages of the Midwest and Midsouth / Patty Jo Watson
  • Prehistoric Plant Cultivation in West-Central Illinois / David L. Asch and Nancy B. Asch
  • Understanding the Evolution of Plant Husbandry in Eastern North America: Lessons from Botany, Ethnography and Archaeology / C. Wesley Cowan
  • Domestication and Diffusion of Maize / Walton C. Galinat
  • The Age of Maize in the Greater Southwest: A Critical Review / Michael S. Berry
  • Domesticating People and Plants in the Greater Southwest / Paul E. Minnis
  • Patterns of Prehistoric Food Production in North America / Richard I. Ford
  • Bibliography