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Author:

Fritz, Gayle, author.

Title:

Feeding Cahokia : early agriculture in the North American heartland / Gayle J. Fritz.

Publisher:

The University of Alabama Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiv, 195 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Agriculture--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park--History.
Agriculture.
Illinois--Cahokia Mounds State Historic Park.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [167]-187) and index.

Contents:

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?.

Series:

Archaeology of food

ISBN:

0817320059
9780817320058

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1037883867

LCCN:

2018021210

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

KHPB566 -- Donnellson Public Library (Donnellson)