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Review Of Ecology And Conservation Of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds By John M. Hagan Iii And David W. Johnston, William Scharf Aug 1993

Review Of Ecology And Conservation Of Neotropical Migrant Landbirds By John M. Hagan Iii And David W. Johnston, William Scharf

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

When I first began to notice changes in the numbers and bird species that I netted on the Great Lakes' islands in the 1970s, I had little comprehension of the extent to which global modifications already underway were driving the changes in bird populations. With this compendium based on a symposium hosted by Manomet Bird Observatory in December, 1989, ornithologists can now substantiate the validity and seriousness of such earlier observations. The erosion of Neotropical bird populations is only one of many symptoms of planetary deterioration.

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Atrazine In The Platte River And Lincoln Municipal Water, James D. Carr Aug 1993

Atrazine In The Platte River And Lincoln Municipal Water, James D. Carr

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The City of Lincoln draws water from a well field along the banks of the Platte River near Ashland. Since 1989 we have monitored the infusion of atrazine into this well field via recharge from the Platte River. Samples of water from the river, several monitoring wells and production wells were analyzed by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometer following solid phase extraction. Atrazine concentrations were found to be less than 0.1 ppb before the growing season every year through 1989-1992. Atrazine in the Platte reached maximum concentrations of 5, 11, 19, and 19 ppb respectively in these years. These …

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The Value On An Interdisciplinary Environmental Awareness: An Introduction, J. Allen Williams Jr. Aug 1993

The Value On An Interdisciplinary Environmental Awareness: An Introduction, J. Allen Williams Jr.

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This special issue of Great Plains Research brings together important and innovative environmentally-related research being conducted in what might be considered an "ecoregion," the Great Plains. Investigators from seven different disciplines explore topics that span the Great Plains from the southern border of Texas to the Canadian prairie provinces of Alberta and Manitoba. Their methods vary from highly focused experimental designs to broad-based policy analysis.

A review of the research topics covered in this issue might suggest they are as varied as the geographic locations, disciplinary affiliations, and methodological approaches of the researchers. In one sense, they are, but the …

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Biological Control Of Weeds In Great Plains Rangelands, Svata M. Louda , Robert A. Masters Aug 1993

Biological Control Of Weeds In Great Plains Rangelands, Svata M. Louda , Robert A. Masters

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Chemical control of weeds has increased agricultural productivity, but complete reliance on chemicals has serious drawbacks. These include high cost per acre, decreasing effectiveness, negative effects on plant community diversity, and increased opportunities for environmental contamination. One alternative is biocontrol, the use of biological factors that naturally limit weed populations. Long-term research goals focus on improving our knowledge of the processes that control and limit potential plant pests naturally and to use that knowledge to develop predictable, sustainable, low-cost, biologically-based weed management strategies. This paper reviews the ecological underpinnings of classical biological control of weeds, including basic research on the …

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Review Of Groundwater Exploitation In The High Plains By David E. Kromm And Stephen E. White, Vincent H. Dreeszen Aug 1993

Review Of Groundwater Exploitation In The High Plains By David E. Kromm And Stephen E. White, Vincent H. Dreeszen

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This volume focuses on irrigation water use, specifically the history of groundwater development and use, i.e. its "exploitation," on the High Plains. Starting in the southern part of the High Plains in the 1930s groundwater irrigation moved rapidly northward through western Oklahoma, western Kansas and into much of Nebraska after World War II. Rocks of different ages in the High Plains comprise the aquifer popularly known as the Ogallala Aquifer but is more appropriately called the High Plains Aquifer by the U.S. Geological Survey. Depletion of the aquifer as indicated by water-level declines, greatest in the drier southern and western …

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Editor's Note - Volume 3, Number 1, Clare V. Mckanna Jr. Aug 1993

Editor's Note - Volume 3, Number 1, Clare V. Mckanna Jr.

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The manuscripts for this special issue of Great Plains Research devoted to environmental concerns were selected by guest-editor J. Allen Williams, Jr. Editing and manuscript preparation were completed by the editor and editorial staff of Great Plains Research.

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Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America'swestern Past. William Cronon,, John R. Wunder Aug 1993

Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America'swestern Past. William Cronon,, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Environmental studies is a growing field that brings new knowledge almost every day and certainly with every press's new listings. Many Western social scientists are attracted to it as a means of explicating the past, present, and future of North America. It is not new to Western historians. James C. Malin and Walter Prescott Webb were two pathfinders in studies of the environment over five to seven decades ago, but ecological impacts on human actions were somewhat forgotten by historians in the interim. During the past fifteen years environmental history has become a staple in studies of the American West. …

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Environmental Impact Assessment In Practice: Exploring The Contradictions, Joel Novek Aug 1993

Environmental Impact Assessment In Practice: Exploring The Contradictions, Joel Novek

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Since its introduction into Canada in 1973, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been controversial. Proponents argue that EIA is a practical means of achieving sustainable development because major projects are subject to an independent review before they are issued a license to proceed. However, the government's role in promoting resource-based development such as the ALPAC pulp mill (northern Alberta) and the Repap mills (northern Manitoba) has attracted considerable resistance. Public opposition to pulp and paper megaprojects in western Canada has reinforced the contradiction between the government's role as development promoter and as protector of northern resources and aboriginal populations.

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Estimated Effect Of Alternative Production Practices On Profit And Ground Water Quality: Texas Seymour Aquifer, Ronald D. Lacewell, Manzoor E. Chowdhury, Kelly J. Bryant, Jimmy R. Williams, Verel W. Benson Aug 1993

Estimated Effect Of Alternative Production Practices On Profit And Ground Water Quality: Texas Seymour Aquifer, Ronald D. Lacewell, Manzoor E. Chowdhury, Kelly J. Bryant, Jimmy R. Williams, Verel W. Benson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Seymour aquifer of north-central Texas is identified as containing elevated levels of nitrate. The area has been designated as a Hydrologic Unit Area under the President's Water Quality Initiative. The effect of alternative production practices on the relative changes in nitrate leaching through the vadose zone was measured by adding an extended soil profile in the EPIC-WQ simulation model. Net returns from alternative production methods were estimated by using returns from associated yield and adjusting the cost of different levels of nitrogen, irrigation, and harvesting. Trade offs between nitrate percolation and net returns were explored by plotting the net …

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Table Of Contents - Volume 3, Number 2 Aug 1993

Table Of Contents - Volume 3, Number 2

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Table of Contents

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Economic Impact Of Leafy Spurge On Grazing Land And Wildland In North Dakota, F. Larry Leistritz, Dean A. Bangsund, Nancy M. Wallace, Jay A. Leitch Feb 1993

Economic Impact Of Leafy Spurge On Grazing Land And Wildland In North Dakota, F. Larry Leistritz, Dean A. Bangsund, Nancy M. Wallace, Jay A. Leitch

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

A variety of undesirable plants pose problems for managers of grazing land and/or wildland because they reduce the land's usefulness for livestock grazing or are detrimental to its other functions, such as wildlife habitat or watershed protection. The purpose of this study was to assess the direct and secondary economic impacts of leafy spurge infestations in North Dakota. This involved estimating the extent of leafy spurge infestations on grazing land and wildland, estimating the effects of the infestation on the outputs of both types of land, estimating the direct economic effects of these changes in outputs, and using input-output analysis …

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Great Plains Research Contents - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993 Feb 1993

Great Plains Research Contents - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Table of Contents

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Great Plains Research News And Notes - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993 Feb 1993

Great Plains Research News And Notes - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Nebraska Chapter of The Wildlife Society (NCTWS) held its 1992 Annual Meeting and Technical Sessions on September 30 - October 2, 1992 at the 4-H Camp near Halsey, Nebraska. The goal was to provide a forum for professionals involved with wildlife in Nebraska to discuss new advances and recent ideas in management programs, public education, research, and technology.

This year's introductory session focused on Conservation Biology. NCTWS President Jon D. Kauffeld introduced keynote speaker Richard L. Knight of Colorado State University, who delivered an address entitled "What's So New About Conservation Biology?" The threat of losing biological diversity …

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Review Of Organizing The Lakota: The Political Economy Of The New Deal On The Pine Ridge And Rosebud Reservations By Thomas Biolsi, David E. Wilkins (Lumbee) Feb 1993

Review Of Organizing The Lakota: The Political Economy Of The New Deal On The Pine Ridge And Rosebud Reservations By Thomas Biolsi, David E. Wilkins (Lumbee)

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book is an important contribution to the growing literature base which seeks to illuminate critical federal Indian laws and policies by incorporating the historical dimension, utilizing economic data, and analyzing political events. Biolsi strives to accomplish this by employing a political-economic paradigm: an historical approach which emphasizes the relationships between the society, polity, and the economy.

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Review Of Distributional Archaeology By James I. Ebert, Lawrence C. Todd Feb 1993

Review Of Distributional Archaeology By James I. Ebert, Lawrence C. Todd

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This volume is both fascinating and frustrating. The work challenges one of the fundamental assumptions of most archaeological research-the existence of archaeological sites. In the preface, Ebert states that his goal is to bring a number of lines of evidence to bear on what I believe is the most critical question in archaeology today: whether we can continue to think in terms of sites, or whether this most basic unit of archaeological discussion rests upon so many untenable, unarticulated, in fact unarticulatable assumptions as to be a liability to the advancement and credibility of our field (p. xiii).

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Review Of The Birds Of Canada, Revised Edition By W. Earl Godfrey, Paul A. Kay Feb 1993

Review Of The Birds Of Canada, Revised Edition By W. Earl Godfrey, Paul A. Kay

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Freezing temperature under a leaden sky, the season's first snow flurry, and lots of activity at my bird feeders-an opportune time to test the coffee-table volume The Birds of Canada. The portraits, painted by John A. Crosby, are as good as those in many of my multitude of field guides, although they are collected into sections between signatures rather than being juxtaposed to the species narratives. The birds are organized according to the American Ornithological Union's sixth check-list, and the usual information-description, field marks, habitat, nesting, range-is here. But Godfrey provides so much more: French names; detailed breeding and …

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Review Of Medicinal Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide By Kelly Kindscher, David J. Harter Feb 1993

Review Of Medicinal Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide By Kelly Kindscher, David J. Harter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is a book for the advanced amateur. It comes five years after Kindscher's Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie which was also an outgrowth of the author's master's thesis (University of Kansas).

Kindscher set two goals for his new book and I believe that he will achieve both. He hoped that it would foster more understanding of the prairie and the uses of its constituent plants, and he wanted to encourage protection, conservation, and reestablishment of the prairie grasslands wherever possible. These goals are shared by many today, but the prairie speaks softly while competing interests such as farming, …

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Review Of Thomas Moran And The Surveying Of The American West By Joni Louise Kinsey, Martha Kennedy Feb 1993

Review Of Thomas Moran And The Surveying Of The American West By Joni Louise Kinsey, Martha Kennedy

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Along with Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) and a few others, Thomas Moran (1837-1926) created some of the most memorable and influential paintings of the American West in the late nineteenth century. Joni Louise Kinsey presents the first thorough study of Moran's early pivotal paintings, the products of his experiences with the great survey expeditions of the 1870s into the west.

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Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925 By D. Aidan Mcquillan, David Peterson Feb 1993

Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925 By D. Aidan Mcquillan, David Peterson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This monograph thoroughly addresses a topic more narrow than its title implies. Its core is an agricultural history of Swedes, Russian-Mennonites, and French-Canadians in central Kansas from 1875 to 1925.

McQuillan reasons that ethnic groups' value systems can be discerned by studying the outcomes of their everyday decisions. Hence he focuses on the rich Kansas agricultural manuscript census schedules to discern how the three groups of immigrants adapted to the arid, often mercurial physical environment in which they found themselves and to the host culture which threatened to swallow up their ethnic distinctiveness. This, then, is a history of ethnic …

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Review Of Medicinal Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide By Kelly Kindscher, David J. Harter Feb 1993

Review Of Medicinal Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide By Kelly Kindscher, David J. Harter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This is a book for the advanced amateur. It comes five years after Kindscher's Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie which was also an outgrowth of the author's master's thesis (University of Kansas).

Kindscher set two goals for his new book and I believe that he will achieve both. He hoped that it would foster more understanding of the prairie and the uses of its constituent plants, and he wanted to encourage protection, conservation, and reestablishment of the prairie grasslands wherever possible. These goals are shared by many today, but the prairie speaks softly while competing interests such as farming, …

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Review Of Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States, 1775 To The Present By Edward Lazarus, Philip Deloria Feb 1993

Review Of Black Hills/White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States, 1775 To The Present By Edward Lazarus, Philip Deloria

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

For observers following the Sioux Nation's legal and legislative struggles over Black Hills land claims, historical contextualization has been stunningly incomplete. The reader can find numerous detailed accounts of nineteenth century military conflict, the Treaties of 1851 and 1868, and the Agreement of 1877. The political rhetoric that followed the 1980 Supreme Court decision ending America's longest running legal battle makes up an equally voluminous body of material. Between the two points lies a poorly illuminated century of legal maneuvering and Sioux activism and cultural change.

Informed by a legal education and the insights of social history, Edward Lazarus has …

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Establishment And Survival Of The Endangered Blowout Penstemon, James L. Stubbendieck, Theresa R. Flessner, Charles H. Butterfield, Allen A. Steuter Feb 1993

Establishment And Survival Of The Endangered Blowout Penstemon, James L. Stubbendieck, Theresa R. Flessner, Charles H. Butterfield, Allen A. Steuter

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Blowout penstemon (Penstemon haydenii S. Wats.) is the rarest plant endemic to the Great Plains and is the only officially endangered plant species in Nebraska. The endangered species recovery plan calls for an increase in viable populations from five to ten and an increase in plant numbers from about 6,000 to 15,000. Research conducted on survival of greenhouse grown seedlings transplanted at three sites in the Nebraska Sandhills showed that transplanting seedlings was feasible. Greatest survival was obtained when blowout penstemon seedlings were transplanted into blowout grass [Redfieldia flexuosa (Thurb.) Vasey] communities in blowout depressions. Plants were not …

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Review Of Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 By Deborah Fink, Betsy Downey Feb 1993

Review Of Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 By Deborah Fink, Betsy Downey

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Agrarian Women begins with a paradox. "Agrarian ideology-the celebration of farming and farmers as the heart of American society"-pervaded the rural households where the author grew up. "Yet it meshed poorly with the lives of many rural women we knew" (p. xv). Using published and unpublished letters, diaries, fiction, public records, historical studies, and interviews, anthropologist Deborah Fink explores the ways in which the agrarian ideal failed the women of Boone County, Nebraska.

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Review Of Western Canada In The International Economy By Edward Chambers And Michael B. Percy, M. L. Lerohl Feb 1993

Review Of Western Canada In The International Economy By Edward Chambers And Michael B. Percy, M. L. Lerohl

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book takes on several tasks. These include assessing Western Canada's competitive strengths in international export markets, judging whether the region is able to take advantage of shifts occurring in these trading patterns, as well as viewing effects of the Canadian economic union on Western Canada. The authors begin their discussion by pointing out how well the economy of the Canadian West is integrated with adjacent regions. The region ships about 54 percent of total exports to the U.S., a number which seems high, but is in fact lower than the Canadian average of 75 percent. The reason appears to …

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Great Plains Research Conferences - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993 Feb 1993

Great Plains Research Conferences - Vol. 3, No. 1, 1993

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents:

The Ecological Society of America

18th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium

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Review Of Aboriginal Resource Use In Canada: Historical And Legal Aspects By Kerry Abel And Jean Friesen, Ken Leyton-Brown Feb 1993

Review Of Aboriginal Resource Use In Canada: Historical And Legal Aspects By Kerry Abel And Jean Friesen, Ken Leyton-Brown

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book, the sixth volume in the series Manitoba Studies in Native History, is a collection of eighteen papers presented at a conference held in 1988 at St. John's College, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. That conference grew out of a recognition of the importance of historical work in some aspects of the broader question of Aboriginal rights, especially as Aboriginals and others have increasingly attempted, in recent years, to settle disputes through recourse to Canadian courts-concerns reflected in the book's structure and contents.

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Review Of The Constitutional Future Of The Prairie And Atlantic Regions Of Canada By James N. Mccrorie And Martha L. Macdonald, Howard Cody Feb 1993

Review Of The Constitutional Future Of The Prairie And Atlantic Regions Of Canada By James N. Mccrorie And Martha L. Macdonald, Howard Cody

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Canadian Plains Research Center has published eighteen papers which were presented at the November 1991 conference. The conference sought to identify common interests and strategies for two of Canada's peripheral regions and their seven provinces in the country's ongoing constitutional reform process. These provinces, the Atlantic region of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick, and the prairie provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta, share a long history of grievances over perceived domination of national policymaking by the populous central provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

Most of the book's essays are supplied by academics who write about …

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Review Of A Social Geography Of Canada: Essays In Honour Of J. Wreford Watson By Guy M. Robinson, Randy Widdis Feb 1993

Review Of A Social Geography Of Canada: Essays In Honour Of J. Wreford Watson By Guy M. Robinson, Randy Widdis

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

As a graduate student at McMaster and Queen's, I was made very aware of the contribution of J. Wreford Watson to Canadian geography. This is understandable since he was largely responsible for the establishment of geography departments at both these institutions as well as at Carleton. This collection of essays by former graduate students, friends, and colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic cover many of the themes of inquiry that interested Watson. The contents focus upon the changing character of Canadian landscapes and society, including dimensions of its historical development, its present spatial forms and current social issues. The …

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Review Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, Revised Ed. By Robert W. Richmond, James W. Hewitt Feb 1993

Review Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, Revised Ed. By Robert W. Richmond, James W. Hewitt

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Robert W. Richmond has orchestrated a filiopietistic paean to the citizens of Kansas the hardy souls who carried their "Beecher's Bibles," fought of fthe border ruffians, broke the sod, welcomed the Texas trail drivers, healed the mind and produced oil, wheat, and airplanes in staggering quantities. But the author's obvious love for Kansas and its people does not detract from the beauty or utility of this work.

Richmond, former state archivist and former assistant director of Kansas' splendid historical society, has produced a revised edition of a work which he, Nyle Miller, and Edgar Langsdorf authored in 1961 to celebrate …

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Review Of Rivers Of Change: Essays On Early Agriculture In Eastern North America By Bruce D. Smith, Karl J. Reinhard Feb 1993

Review Of Rivers Of Change: Essays On Early Agriculture In Eastern North America By Bruce D. Smith, Karl J. Reinhard

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Between 1970 and 1990 there was a burst of paleoethnobotanical research into prehistoric Native American subsistence practices across North America which has resulted recently in numerous regional syntheses. No synthesis is more salient or cogent than that presented for eastern North America by Bruce D. Smith who has been a key researcher in the area of prehistoric subsistence.

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