Revisiting the Ancient Americas with Professor Shane Miller
Tides of History
Plant Domestication in the Southeastern United States
The eastern United States is one of the independent centers of plant domestication in the world. The mid-Hollocene was a tipping point time when people began to turn to plants for food and they were successful at it. In places where they no longer had productive acorns oak trees and hickory trees they were looking for other things like weedy plants that produce a lot of seeds in a short amount of time in the fall. Those storage pits are critical for getting over that winter to early spring yearly shortfall.
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