Feeding Cahokia : Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland /

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"An authoritative and thoroughly accessible overview of farming and food practices at Cahokia. Agriculture is rightly emphasized as the center of the economy in most studies of Cahokian society, but the focus is often predominantly on corn. This farming economy is typically framed in terms of r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Fritz, Gayle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : The University of Alabama Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Agriculture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General
Agriculture > Illinois > Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park > Histoire.
Agriculture > Illinois > Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park > History.
Illinois > Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Domesticating gourds and forests
  • 2. Sunflower and marshelder : late archaic period eastern crops
  • 3. Rise of the Eastern Agricultural Complex : terminal late archaic and early Woodland periods
  • 4. Seeds of exchange : the middle Woodland period
  • 5. Good late Woodland farmers in the American Bottom
  • 6. Feasting at early Cahokia
  • 7. Early Mississippian plant use
  • 8. Guardians of all vegetation
  • 9. Crop production : estimates of yields and dietary proportions
  • 10. How to feed Cahokia : cultivating fields and social relationships
  • 11. The farmers vote with their feet
  • 12. What can we learn from the past?

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