Native American ‘garden agriculture’ in southeastern North America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7423942 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Margaret Scarry (corresponding author), John F Scarry |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-274 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438243500095199 |
| OpenAlex | W1990768254 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 26 |
| References cited | 14 |
The Native Americans of south-eastern North America are sometimes described as gardeners and sometimes as agriculturalists. Neither label conveys an accurate sense of farming practices that employed polycropping and shifting cultivation to produce substantial surpluses. Ethnohistorical accounts provide tantalizing glimpses of the production and storage of cultivated foods among the native societies of the Southeast. Archaeological investigations in Apalachee Province have yielded further evidence regarding the sizes and distribution of elevated granaries in one native chiefdom. Archaeobotanical data provide information about varied reliance on agricultural products in several polities in Alabama and Mississippi. We weave together these various threads of evidence to survey the cropping strategies (e.g. scale of production, diversity of crops, labor and storage practices) of Mississippian peoples and their historic descendants in the Southeast
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeological evidence · Archaeology · Biology · Chiefdom · Cropping · Distribution (mathematics · Diversity (politics · Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Politics · Scale (ratio · Sociology · Anthropology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Law
Adopting the watermelon
Evaluating Mississippian Period Hunting Strategies at the Rutherford-Kizer Site
Maize and Mississippian Beginnings
The Impact of Native American Activity on Vegetation and Soil Charcoal in the Eastern US
Multiscalar Settlement Ecology Study of Piedmont Village Tradition Communities, A.D. 1000–1600
The Country They Built
Could Captain John Smith's Mattoume Have Been Wild Rice
Risk Management Among Native American Horticulturalists of the Southeastern United States (1715-1825)
Kitchen gardens, wild forage and tree fruits
Settler colonial origins of intimate partner violence in Indigenous communities
Seeds for the Future
Foodways Archaeology
Archaeology for Sustainable Agriculture
New Perspectives in Mississippian Archaeology
New World Paleoethnobotany in the New Millennium (2000–2013)
Food production in the Early Woodland
Hunting, fishing, and foraging in times of conflict
Mill Creek Chert Hoes and Prairie Soils
Foodways and community at the Late Mississippian site of Parchman Place
A Critical Test of the Central Plains Tradition Swidden Model Using Data from the Glenwood Locality
Caddo Agriculture on the Western Frontier of the Eastern Woodlands
The Feral Animal Question
Nutritional Properties of Native Plants and Traditional Foods from the Central United States
Maopewa iati bi
Finding Fields
From foraging to farming
Ancient chiefdoms of the Tombigbee
Moundville as a Diagrammatic Ceremonial Center
Outlying Sites within the Moundville Chiefdom
Dynamic optimization of horticulture among the Muscogee Creek Indians of the southeastern United States
Continuity and change
Status-Related Variation in Foodways in the Moundville Chiefdom
Understanding Variation in Prehistoric Agricultural Productivity
Guardians of Tradition and Handmaidens to Change
An Analysis of the Symbolism Expressed by the Birger Figurine
Culture and Agriculture
Maize Productivity in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains of North America
Changes in Activities with the Shift to Agriculture in the Southeastern United States
| Unique citing works | 26 |
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| Citations per year | 1,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |