Rivers of change
1992
Smith, Bruce D. (Bruce David) | Cowan, C. Wesley | Hoffman, Michael P.
Over the past twenty years . . . a new picture of Indian agricultural history has emerged, slowly at first; but now a torrent of studies provide convincing proof that ancient farming involving goosefoot, marshelder, maygrass, little barley, knotweed, and other seemingly unlikely plants. Although modern America ignores these plants or considers them weeds to be eradicated, their nutritious grains, or those of their now-extinct domesticated varieties, sustained Indian people for two thousand to four thousand years, long before corn was brought north of Mexico. Bruce Smith tells the story of this native crop complex, combining archaeological data with the results of recent botanizing in the southeastern United States. By documenting the independent development of agriculture in eastern North America, Smith forces recognition of this area as one of only a handful of primary centers of domestication worldwide / William Green, American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Autumn, 1997), pp. 753-755.
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