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Comment on Pickersgill's “Cultivated Plants as Evidence for Cultural Contacts”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Stephen C. Jett
Stephen C. Jett*
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of California, Davis
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Abstract

Pickersgill has proposed situations in which cultivated plants cannot be used as evidence for contacts between areas, and are evidence against contacts. Alternative hypotheses involving contacts are presented. Pickersgill's examples of “independent” domestications are also questioned.

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Comment
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 1973 , pp. 223 - 225
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1973

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