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Science 22 December 1989:
Vol. 246. no. 4937, pp. 1566 - 1571
DOI: 10.1126/science.246.4937.1566
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Origins of Agriculture in Eastern North America

BRUCE D. SMITH 1

1 Curator of North American Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560.

As a result of research carried out over the past decade, eastern North America now provides one of the most detailed records of the origins of agriculture available. Spanning a filll three millennia, the transition from forager to farmer in eastern North America involved the domestication of four North American seed plants during the second millennium B.C., the initial emergence of food production economies based on local crop plants between 250 B.C. and A.D. 200, and the rapid and broad-scale shift to maize-centered agriculture during the three centuries from A.D. 800 to 1100.


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