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Plant Husbandry in Prehistoric Eastern North America: New Evidence for Its Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Stephen A. Chomko  and
Gary W. Crawford
Stephen A. Chomko
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65201
Gary W. Crawford
Affiliation:
Research Laboratories of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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Abstract

Squash remains from three Late Archaic archaeological sites constitute the earliest evidence for cultigens in eastern North America. The new data indicate the tropical cultigen, squash, was introduced into the area prior to the domestication of native plant resources.

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American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 1978 , pp. 405 - 408
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1978

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