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CONTRIBUTORS C.Wesley Cowan is Curator ofArchaeology at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History. He has long been interested in the evolution of agricultural economies in eastern North America. His research centers on early horticulturalists in the Cumberland Plateau of eastern Kentucky and the maize-based Fort Ancient cultures of the central Ohio Valley. Gary W. Crawford is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has published a monograph and numerous articles on the prehistory and paleoethnobotany ofJapan. He has also investigated and written about issues on the prehistory of eastern North America. In recent years his research has focused on the archaeology ofthe immediate predecessors of the Ainu of northeastern Japan. His current research, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and Earthwatch, addresses the beginning of agriculture in southern Ontario, Canada. Gayle J. Fritz is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis and holds a joint appointment in Biology. Her work explores prehistoric human-plant interrelationships, especially the cultural, biological, and ecological aspects of subsistence continuity and change. A focus is on the processes and sequences that led to the development of agricultural systems in eastern North America. Currently, she works in the central and lower regions of the Mississippi Valley and in the Trans-Mississippi South, modeling the transition to farming and subsequent intensification of maize-based agricultural systems. Paul S. Gardner received his doctorate in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he specialized in archaeobotanical and evolutionary ecological studies of Eastern Woodlands subsistence change. As an archaeologist he has directed field research in Virginia and North Carolina and as a consulting archaeobotanist has analyzed plant remains from sites in seven states. Currently he is Adjunct Assistant Professor ofAnthropology at The Ohio State Uni- 262 Contributors versity and is Midwest Regional Director for The Archaeological Conservancy , the nation's private, not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving archaeological sites through permanent acquisition. Carol Goland is Affiliated Scholar and Visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University, where she teaches courses in the Sociology/Anthropology Department and the Environmental Studies Program. Her recent work focuses on the human ecology of agricultural production in the peasant communities of Cuyo Cuyo in the Peruvian Andes. Aspects of this work are summarized in "Field Scattering as Agricultural Risk Management: A Case Study from Cuyo Cuyo, Department of Puno, Peru" (Mountain Research and Development, 1993) and "Agricultural Risk Management Through Diversity: Field Scattering in Cuyo Cuyo, Peru" (Culture and Agriculture, 1993). Her interest in forager subsistence strategies grew out of earlier work on the archaeology of the eastern United States Archaic. Kristen J. Gremillion is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at The Ohio State University. She received her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1989. Her research specialties include paleoethnobotany, prehistoric diet and subsistence, and the origins of agriculture. She is currently investigating the development of premaize farming systems in the uplands of eastern Kentucky and is involved in the multidisciplinary study of human paleofeces as a source of information about the diet, health, and genetics of ancient populations. Julia E. Hammett is Research Scientist with Muwekma Ohlone Tribe in San Jose, California, and Research Associate with Stanford Campus Archaeology Program. She has conducted paleoethnobotanical and landscape analyses in four regions of North America: the Southwest, California, the Southeast, and the Great Basin. Her research combines ecological, archaeological, and historical data to investigate prehistoric and historic landscapes and traditional land use patterns. She currently conducts research in the San Francisco Bay area. C. Margaret Scarry is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Research Associate of the Research Laboratories of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. She received her doctorate in anthropology in 1986 from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the foodways of the late prehistoric and early historic peoples of [54.147.17.95] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 09:59 GMT) 263 Contributors southeastern North America. She has published articles on investigation of archaeological plant remains from the Moundville polity in Alabama and from several Spanish colonial sites in Florida. In addition, she has analyzed plant remains from the Parkin site in Arkansas and from sites in Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland,Mississippi, Missouri, New York, South Carolina, and Virginia. Bruce D. Smith is Senior Scientist and Director ofthe Archaeobiology Program, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.c. His recent books include The Mississippian Emergence (1990), Rivers of...