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The Consideration Of The Caddo Area In “Food Production In Native North America: An Archaeological Perspective”, Timothy K. Perttula
The Consideration Of The Caddo Area In “Food Production In Native North America: An Archaeological Perspective”, Timothy K. Perttula
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State
Kristen J. Gremillion has written “a highly selective survey of Native North American food production systems from an archaeological perspective,” with a particular focus on plant food production in the Eastern Woodlands and the Southwest. The time frame of the book spans the period from ca. 3000 B.C. to post-European contact, extending up to ca. A.D. 1800. The archaeological evidence for plant food production in the Caddo Archaeological Area of Southwest Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana, eastern Oklahoma, and East Texas is mentioned by Gremillion, but only rather briefly in her chapter entitled “the Rise of the Three Sisters: Maize in the …