This study uses morphometrics and digital image analysis to document domestication
syndrome in an annual seed crop, Polygonum erectum L.(erect knotweed), which was …

Archaic and Woodland period communities in eastern North America domesticated a suite of
annual seed crops referred to the Eastern Agricultural Complex (EAC), some of which …

In eastern North America, Indigenous peoples domesticated several crops that are now
extinct. We present experimental data that alters our understanding of the domestication of …

Relatively few farmers today actively maintain crop biodiversity, but for most of the history of
agriculture this was the norm. Archaeobotanical analyses can reveal the processes that led …

The potential influence of bias long has haunted archaeological practice and discourse. In
North America, late Pleistocene fluted-point studies commonly assess the role of sampling …

Past research on the development of Archaic ideological complexity in eastern North
America has focused on ritualism and ceremony related to mortuary behaviors, with less …

ABSTRACT During the North American Late Archaic Period, people produced ceramic
vessels from clay and stone vessels from soapstone. While both ceramic and soapstone …

In Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants
play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at …

Domesticated Chenopodium taxa are distinguished from their wild relatives on the basis of
seed morphology including thin seed coats, truncate seed margins, and light-colored …

Wesselman Farm is a previously unidentified precontact site in Hamilton County, Ohio. The
site is an early Late Archaic period (4330±30 to 4080±30 BP [4959-4462 cal BP]) habitation …