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245 10 a| From colonization to domesticationh| [electronic resource] :b| population, environment, and the origins of agriculture in Eastern North America /c| D. Shane Miller.;

260 a| Salt Lake City :b| The University of Utah Press,c| [2018];

300 a| xvii, 198 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 24 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-188) and index.;

505 0 a| Behavioral ecology and the origins of agriculture -- Environmental and chronological building blocks -- From projectile points to prey size -- Projectiles points and prey size in the lower Tennessee River Valley -- The ideal free distribution and landscape use in the Duck and lower Tennessee River valleys -- A boom-bust model for the origins of agriculture in eastern North America.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. 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 if 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 of increasing population pressure and declining returns from hunting. Miller contends, however, that the appearance of domesticated plants in eastern North America is the result of individuals adjusting to periods of both abundance and shortfall driven by climate change, rather then simply being an example of necessity as the mother of invention"--Provided by publisher.;

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From colonization to domestication population, environment, and the origins of agriculture in Eastern North America / D. Shane Miller.

Author/creator	Miller, D. Shane, 1982-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2018]
Description	xvii, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Paleo-Indians--Agriculture. --Southern States. Indians of North America--Agriculture. --Southern States. Agriculture, Prehistoric--Southern States. Agriculture--Southern States. --Origin. Indians of North America--Southern States. --Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology)--Southern States. Environmental archaeology--Southern States. Social archaeology--Southern States. Southern States--Antiquities.

Contents	Behavioral ecology and the origins of agriculture -- Environmental and chronological building blocks -- From projectile points to prey size -- Projectiles points and prey size in the lower Tennessee River Valley -- The ideal free distribution and landscape use in the Duck and lower Tennessee River valleys -- A boom-bust model for the origins of agriculture in eastern North America.
Abstract	"Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. 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 if 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 of increasing population pressure and declining returns from hunting. Miller contends, however, that the appearance of domesticated plants in eastern North America is the result of individuals adjusting to periods of both abundance and shortfall driven by climate change, rather then simply being an example of necessity as the mother of invention"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-188) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017055320
ISBN	9781607816164 (cloth)

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