Seeking a Richer Harvest The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensificat

Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among foragers and horticulturalists, and the rise of chiefly societies and archaic states, yet there is considerable

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STUDIES IN HUMAN ECOLOGY AND ADAPTATION Series Editors: Daniel G. Bates, Hunter College – City University of New York, co-editor Ludomir Lozny, Hunter College – City University of New York, co-editor Editorial Board: Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Fikret Berkes, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Michael Dove, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Katherine Homewood, University College London, London, England J. Terrence McCabe, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Christine Padoch, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York David Pimentel, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York ●











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Seeking a Richer Harvest The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change

Edited by

Tina L. Thurston Department of Anthropology SUNY Buffalo Buffalo, NY

Christopher T. Fisher Department of Anthropology Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado

Tina L. Thurston Department of Anthropology SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA [email protected]

Christopher T. Fisher Department of Anthropology Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA [email protected]

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