N G Mueller
Biographic Data
| ID | 27807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N G Mueller |
| GIVEN NAMES | N G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mueller |
| SIGNATURE | MUELLER N G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9517-9781 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Correlating Late-Holocene climate change and population dynamics at Cahokia Mounds (American Bottom, USA)
Food insecurity and the disruption of agricultural systems are often cited as explanations for the correlations observed between climate change and demographic shifts in past agricultural societies. While these narratives are abundant with data pertaining to climate and demographic changes, they often lack substantial information regarding the processes contributing to agricultural destabilization. In this article, we employ stable carbon isotope…
Domestication as the evolution of interspecies cooperative breeding
We propose that domestication is the result of interspecies cooperative breeding. Considering domestication as an outcome of cooperative breeding can explain how domestication occurs in both plants and animals, encompass cases of domestication that do not involve humans, and shed light on why humans are involved in so many domesticatory relationships. We review the cooperative breeding model of human evolution, which posits that care of human inf…
Turning Over a New Leaf
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 one of these-goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri). Ancient domesticated goosefoot has been recognized on the basis of seed morphology, especially a decrease in the thickness of the seed coat (testa). Nondomesticated goosefoot also sometimes produces seeds that look similar …
The Broad-Spectrum Revolution at 50
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet)
Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes
Bison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America
Scholars have argued that plant domestication in eastern North America involved human interactions with floodplain weeds in woodlands that had few other early successional environments. Archeological evidence for plant domestication in this region occurs along the Mississippi river and major tributaries such as the Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers. But this region is also known as the prairie peninsula: a prairie-woodland …
Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective
Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of ‘domestication’ as a term and 19th century cultural project. We explore the potential of process archaeology for deep-time investigation of domestication relationships, drawing attention to the variable pace of domestication as an ongoing process within and across taxa; the nature of domest…
Ritual dispositions, enclosures, and the passing of time
Experimental Cultivation of Eastern North America's Lost Crops
Since the 1930s, archaeologists have been accumulating data on the lost crops of eastern North America. These are a group of annual plants (Chenopodium berlandieri, Hordeum pusillum, Iva annua, Phalaris caroliniana, and Polygonum erectum) that were cultivated by Indigenous societies for thousands of years. No published written or oral histories attest to the methods used in their cultivation, and their domesticated forms are thought to be extinct…
The earliest occurrence of a newly described domesticate in Eastern North America
Documenting the Evolution of Agrobiodiversity in the Archaeological Record
Documenting domestication in a lost crop (Polygonum erectum L.)
Carbonization, differential preservation, and sampling biases in domestication studies
Evolutionary “Bet-Hedgers” under Cultivation
Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective
Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of ‘domestication’ as a term and 19th century cultural project. We explore the potential of process archaeology for deep-time investigation of domestication relationships, drawing attention to the variable pace of domestication as an ongoing process within and across taxa; the nature of domest…
Bison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America
Scholars have argued that plant domestication in eastern North America involved human interactions with floodplain weeds in woodlands that had few other early successional environments. Archeological evidence for plant domestication in this region occurs along the Mississippi river and major tributaries such as the Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers. But this region is also known as the prairie peninsula: a prairie-woodland …
Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes
Experimental Cultivation of Eastern North America's Lost Crops
Since the 1930s, archaeologists have been accumulating data on the lost crops of eastern North America. These are a group of annual plants (Chenopodium berlandieri, Hordeum pusillum, Iva annua, Phalaris caroliniana, and Polygonum erectum) that were cultivated by Indigenous societies for thousands of years. No published written or oral histories attest to the methods used in their cultivation, and their domesticated forms are thought to be extinct…
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet)
Ritual dispositions, enclosures, and the passing of time
Documenting the Evolution of Agrobiodiversity in the Archaeological Record
Turning Over a New Leaf
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 one of these-goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri). Ancient domesticated goosefoot has been recognized on the basis of seed morphology, especially a decrease in the thickness of the seed coat (testa). Nondomesticated goosefoot also sometimes produces seeds that look similar …
Domestication as the evolution of interspecies cooperative breeding
We propose that domestication is the result of interspecies cooperative breeding. Considering domestication as an outcome of cooperative breeding can explain how domestication occurs in both plants and animals, encompass cases of domestication that do not involve humans, and shed light on why humans are involved in so many domesticatory relationships. We review the cooperative breeding model of human evolution, which posits that care of human inf…
Evolutionary “Bet-Hedgers” under Cultivation
Documenting domestication in a lost crop (Polygonum erectum L.)
Carbonization, differential preservation, and sampling biases in domestication studies
The earliest occurrence of a newly described domesticate in Eastern North America
Documenting the Evolution of Agrobiodiversity in the Archaeological Record
Experimental Cultivation of Eastern North America's Lost Crops
Since the 1930s, archaeologists have been accumulating data on the lost crops of eastern North America. These are a group of annual plants (Chenopodium berlandieri, Hordeum pusillum, Iva annua, Phalaris caroliniana, and Polygonum erectum) that were cultivated by Indigenous societies for thousands of years. No published written or oral histories attest to the methods used in their cultivation, and their domesticated forms are thought to be extinct…
Variability and preservation biases in the archaeobotanical record of Eleusine coracana (finger millet)
Domestication, crop breeding, and genetic modification are fundamentally different processes
Bison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America
Scholars have argued that plant domestication in eastern North America involved human interactions with floodplain weeds in woodlands that had few other early successional environments. Archeological evidence for plant domestication in this region occurs along the Mississippi river and major tributaries such as the Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers. But this region is also known as the prairie peninsula: a prairie-woodland …
Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective
Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of ‘domestication’ as a term and 19th century cultural project. We explore the potential of process archaeology for deep-time investigation of domestication relationships, drawing attention to the variable pace of domestication as an ongoing process within and across taxa; the nature of domest…
Ritual dispositions, enclosures, and the passing of time
The Broad-Spectrum Revolution at 50
Turning Over a New Leaf
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 one of these-goosefoot (Chenopodium berlandieri). Ancient domesticated goosefoot has been recognized on the basis of seed morphology, especially a decrease in the thickness of the seed coat (testa). Nondomesticated goosefoot also sometimes produces seeds that look similar …
Correlating Late-Holocene climate change and population dynamics at Cahokia Mounds (American Bottom, USA)
Food insecurity and the disruption of agricultural systems are often cited as explanations for the correlations observed between climate change and demographic shifts in past agricultural societies. While these narratives are abundant with data pertaining to climate and demographic changes, they often lack substantial information regarding the processes contributing to agricultural destabilization. In this article, we employ stable carbon isotope…
Domestication as the evolution of interspecies cooperative breeding
We propose that domestication is the result of interspecies cooperative breeding. Considering domestication as an outcome of cooperative breeding can explain how domestication occurs in both plants and animals, encompass cases of domestication that do not involve humans, and shed light on why humans are involved in so many domesticatory relationships. We review the cooperative breeding model of human evolution, which posits that care of human inf…
Ecology (13 works) · Biology (12 works) · Domestication (12 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Crop (7 works) · Agronomy (5 works) · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Agroforestry (4 works)