There can be no doubt that Peter Bellwood's First Farmers is a major new statement which
presents a robustly expressed solution to one of those classic problems which provides a …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

Written in an easy-to-read, narrative format, this volume provides the most comprehensive
coverage of North American Indians from earliest evidence through 1990. It shows Indians …

Our perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient
economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the …

Maize agriculture was practiced in the US Southwest slightly before 2000 BC, but had a
negligible impact on population growth rates until the development or introduction of more …

Evidence today suggests that by at least 8000 to 8500 BP, Archaic hunter-gatherer
economies were established throughout the North American Southwest. The Early Archaic …

The genetics that distinguish the" domesticated" form of maize from its wild progenitor
teosinte are now believed to involve relatively few genes, with one of those genes being …

The Ancestral Puebloans occupied Chaco Canyon, in what is now the southwestern USA,
for more than a millennium and harvested useful timber and fuel from the trees of distant …

Cerro Juanaqueña is a residential complex with 8 kilometers of terrace walls in northwestern
Mexico that was occupied at∼ 3000 calendar years before present based on radiocarbon …

Highlighted in this chapter is the prehistoric temporal and geographic distribution of
domesticated Phaseolus remains and the relationship of these remains to the distribution of …