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From Colonization to Domestication - Population, Environment, and the Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America (Hardcover)
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From Colonization to Domestication - Population, Environment, and the Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America (Hardcover)
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Eastern North America is one of only a handful of places in the
world where people first discovered how to domesticate plants. In
this book, anthropologist Shane Miller uses two common, although
unconventional, sources of archaeological data-stone tools and the
distribution of archaeological sites-to trace subsistence decisions
from the initial colonization of the American Southeast at the end
of the last Ice Age to the appearance of indigenous domesticated
plants roughly 5,000 years ago. Miller argues that the origins of
plant domestication lie within the context of a boom/bust cycle
that culminated in the mid-Holocene, when hunter-gatherers were
able to intensively exploit shellfish, deer, oak, and hickory.
After this resource "boom" ended, some groups shifted to other
plants in place of oak and hickory, which included the suite of
plants that were later domesticated. Accompanying these subsistence
trends is evidence for increasing population pressure and declining
returns from hunting. Miller contends, however, that the appearance
of domesticated plants in eastern North America, rather than simply
being an example of necessity as the mother of invention, is the
result of individuals adjusting to periods of both abundance and
shortfall driven by climate change.
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