Origins of agriculture in eastern North America
Smith BD. 1989. Origins of agriculture in eastern North America. Science. 246(4937):1566-1571
As a result of research carried out over the past decade, eastern North America now provides one of the most detailed records of the origins of agriculture available. Spanning a full three millennia, the transition from forager to farmer in eastern North America involved the domestication of four North American seed plants during the second millennium B.C., the initial emergence of food production economies based on local crop plants between 250 B.C. and A.D. 200, and the rapid and broad-scale shift to maize-centered agriculture during the three centuries from A.D. 800 to 1100.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Smith, Bruce
- Units
- MACA
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Archeology, Plant Studies, Prehistoric Indians, Seeds