Initial formation of an indigenous crop complex in Eastern North America at 3800 B.P.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 6561-6566

  Smith, Bruce D ^a   Yarnell, Richard A ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Archaeology; Chenopodium; Domestication

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

ARTICLE; BARLEY; CATCHMENT; CHENOPODIUM BERLANDIERI; CROP; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GOOSEFOOT; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; HORDEUM PUSILLUM; IVA ANNUA; LAGENARIA SICERARI; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED; SQUASH; SUNFLOWER; TILLAGE; ARCHEOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; RADIOMETRY; TIME;

ANIMALIA; CHENOPODIUM; CHENOPODIUM BERLANDIERI; CUCURBITA PEPO; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; HORDEUM PUSILLUM; IVA; IVA ANNUA; LAGENARIA SICERARIA; MACROCARPA;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CHENOPODIUM; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NORTH AMERICA; RADIOMETRIC DATING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 66149113710     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901846106     Document Type: Article

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