LEADER 03928nam 2200637 450 001 9910466906503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-60781-617-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000004817530 035 $a(OCoLC)1013992864 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67808 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5377806 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5377806 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11553036 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004817530 100 $a20180525d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFrom colonization to domestication $epopulation, environment, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America /$fD. Shane Miller 210 1$aSalt Lake City :$cThe University of Utah Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a1-60781-616-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aHistorical ecology and the origins of agriculture -- Environmental and chronological building blocks -- From projectile points to prey size -- Projectiles points and prey size in the lower Tennessee River Valley -- The ideal free distribution and landscape use in the Duck and lower Tennessee River valleys -- A boom-bust model for the origins of agriculture in eastern North America. 330 $a"Winner of the Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. Eastern North America is one of only a handful of places in the world where people first discovered how to domesticate plants. In this book, anthropologist Shane Miller uses two common, although unconventional, sources of archaeological data, stone tools and the distribution of archaeological sites, to trace subsistence decisions from the initial colonization of the American Southeast at the end of the last Ice Age to the appearance of indigenous domesticated plants roughly 5,000 years ago. Miller argues that the origins of plant domestication lie within the context of a boom/bust cycle that culminated in the mid-Holocene,when hunter-gatherers were able to intensively exploit shellfish, deer, oak, and hickory. After this resource "boom" ended, some groups shifted to other plants in place of oak and hickory, which included the suite of plants that were later domesticated. Accompanying these subsistence trends is evidence for increasing population pressure and declining returns from hunting. Miller contends, however, that the appearance of domesticated plants in eastern North America, rather than simply being an example of necessity as the mother of invention, is the result of individuals adjusting to periods of both abundance and shortfall driven by climate change"--Provided by publisher. 606 $aPaleo-Indians$xAgriculture$zSouthern States 606 $aIndians of North America$xAgriculture$zSouthern States 606 $aAgriculture, Prehistoric$zSouthern States 606 $aAgriculture$zSouthern States$xOrigin 606 $aIndians of North America$zSouthern States$xAntiquities 606 $aExcavations (Archaeology)$zSouthern States 606 $aEnvironmental archaeology$zSouthern States 606 $aSocial archaeology$zSouthern States 607 $aSouthern States$xAntiquities 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPaleo-Indians$xAgriculture 615 0$aIndians of North America$xAgriculture 615 0$aAgriculture, Prehistoric 615 0$aAgriculture$xOrigin. 615 0$aIndians of North America$xAntiquities. 615 0$aExcavations (Archaeology) 615 0$aEnvironmental archaeology 615 0$aSocial archaeology 676 $a975.004/97 700 $aMiller$b D. Shane$g(Darcy Shane),$f1982-$0988487 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910466906503321 996 $aFrom colonization to domestication$92260328 997 $aUNINA