Prehistoric Food Production in North America
Prehistoric Food Production in North America

Author: Richard I. Ford

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1985-01-01

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 0915703017

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As Richard I. Ford explains in his preface to this volume, the 1980s saw an “explosive expansion of our knowledge about the variety of cultivated and domesticated plants and their history in aboriginal America.” This collection presents research on prehistoric food production from Ford, Patty Jo Watson, Frances B. King, C. Wesley Cowan, Paul E. Minnis, and others.

Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America
Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America

Author: Renee Beauchamp Walker

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 345

ISBN-13: 0803207646

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These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but one of the subsistence strategies the first humans in the New World employed and that they also relied on foraging and fishing.