People, Plants, and Landscapes: Studies in Paleoethnobotany

Contents

CONTENTS Figures and Tables x Foreword by Bruce D. Smith xiii Preface xv Introduction I Part I. The Archaeological Record of Plant Domestication and Utilization .! The Shaping of Modern Paleoethnobotany PattyJo Vliatson I3 ~ New Perspectives on the Paleoethnobotany of the Newt Kash Shelter KristenJ Gremillion 23 ~ A Three-Thousand-Year-Old Cache of Crop Seeds from Marble Bluff, Arkansas GayleJ Fritz 42 viii Contents 1 Evolutionary Changes Associated with the Domestication of Cucurbita pepo: Evidence from Eastern Kentucky C. VJtesley Cowan 63 .2. Anthropogenesis in Prehistoric Northeastern Japan Gary W Crawford 86 Part II. Plant Resources, Human Communities, and Anthropogenic Landscapes Q Between Farmstead and Center: The Natural and Social Landscape of Moundville C. Margaret Scarry and Vincas P. Steponaitis 107 Z An Evolutionary Ecology Perspective on Diet Choice, Risk, and Plant Domestication Bruce Winterhalder and Carol Goland 123 ~ The Ecological Structure and Behavioral Implications of Mast Exploitation Strategies Paul S. Gardner 161 ix Contents 2 Changing Strategies of Indian Field Location in the Early Historic Southeast Gregory A. Waselkov 179 10 Interregional Patterns of Land Use and Plant Management in Native North America Julia E. Hammett 195 References Cited 21 7 Contributors 261 Index 265 ...