Prehistoric Food Production in North America. 1985. (Anthropological Papers, Mus. of Anthropology, Univ. of Michigan, No. 75). 39 illustr. tabs. XV,411 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.

Contents: The Processes of Plant Food Production in Prehistoric NorthAmerica, Richard I.Ford/ Adaptive Strategies of Archaic Cultures of theWest Gulf Coastal Plain, Dee Ann Story/ Some Botanical Considerations ofthe Early Domesticated Plants North of Mexico, Charles B.Heiser, Jr./Early Cultivated Cucurbits in Eastern North America, Frances B.King/ TheImpact of Early Horticulture in the Upland Drainages of the Midwest andMidsouth, Patty Jo Watson/ Prehistoric Plant Cultivation in West-CentralIllinois, David L.Asch and Nancy E.Asch/ Understanding the Evolution ofPlant Husbandry in Eastern North America: Lessons from Botany,Ethnography and Archaeology, C.Wesley Cowan/ Domestication and Diffusionof Maize, Walton C.Galinat.