Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America

'[T]he best single source on the questions, methods, and database pertaining to the origins of plant domestication and food production in eastern North America.' (American Anthropologist) '[T]he most insightful, broadly cast examination of pre-maize candidates for domestication yet published.' (American Antiquity) 'Smith has put the pieces of the puzzle together and made a compelling case for recognizing the Eastern Woodlands as an independent center of domestication.' (Journal of Anthropological Research) 'This book stands as a major statement by a noted North American archaeologist and is recommended to anyone interested in crop origins.' (Quarterly Review of Biology)