The subsistence economies of indigenous North American societies : a handbook

Smith, Bruce D. (Bruce David), 1946- (editor.).

Summary: "The Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American Societies provides a comprehensive and in-depth documentation of how Native American societies met the challenges of adapting to the varied ecosystems of North America over the past 10,000 years. The contributors identify a number of recurrent themes and questions which have shaped debates regarding the nature of Native American interaction with and impact on their local environments throughout the Holocene.

Record details

ISBN: 193562301X
ISBN: 9781935623014
Physical Description: xi, 616 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
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Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press ; Lanham, Maryland. : Published in cooperation with Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
Copyright: ©2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Patterns of plant use in the prehistoric Central and Southern Plains / Mary J. Adair and Richard R. Drass -- Native American use of animals on the North American Great Plains / John R. Bozell, Carl R. Falk, and Eileen Johnson -- The role of plants in Southeastern subsistence economies / Kristen J. Gremillion -- Animals in Southeastern Native American subsistence economies / Heather A. Lapham -- People and plant interactions in the Northeast / Gary W. Crawford -- Animal use by Holocene aboriginal societies of the Northeast / Bonnie W. Styles -- Native American domestication and husbandry of plants in eastern North America / C. Margaret Scarry and Richard A. Yarnell -- The role of "tropical" crops in early North American agriculture / Gayle J. Fritz -- Tobacco and smoking in native North America / Sandra L. Dunavan and Volney H. Jones -- The diversity and origin of American dogs / Lynn M. Snyder and Jennifer A. Leonard -- Domestication of the turkey in the American Southwest / Natalie D. Munro -- Fusion gardens : Native North America and the Columbian exchange / Lee A. Newsom and D. Ann Trieu Gahr -- Eurasian domesticated livestock in Native American economies / Burnet Pavao-Zuckerman and Elizabeth J. Reitz -- Shaping the natural world : patterns of human niche construction by small-scale societies in North America / Bruce D. Smith.