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Comments on Struever's Discussion of an Early "Eastern Agricultural Complex"

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard A. Yarnell
Richard A. Yarnell*
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Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
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Abstract

In a recent article, Stuart Struever made certain statements which deserve comment. Discussion of the possibility of pre-maize agriculture in the eastern United States appeared in print as early as 1924. Sunflower and marshelder seem to have been among the plants domesticated, but not giant ragweed. The evidence for cultivation of amaranth and chenopod needs more careful evaluation. The archaeological occurrence of unusually large seeds may be good evidence of domestication, but the occurrence of chenopod at the Pomranky and Hodges sites in Michigan does not appear to be good evidence.

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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , April 1963 , pp. 547 - 548
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copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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