|
|||||
|
|
Earliest Cucurbita from the Great Lakes, Northern USA |
|
| Authors: | G William Monaghan William A Lovis |
| Institution: | a Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, 423 North Fess Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA b MSU Museum and Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA c Commonwealth Cultural Resources Group, Inc., P.O. Box 1061, Minocqua, WI 54548, USA |
| Abstract: | Directly dated Cucurbita from archaeological sites near Lake Huron expand the range and human usage of adventive, cultivated wild gourds or squash into the Great Lakes region, USA, by 4000 14C yr BP. The data also show that domesticated C. pepo squash was cultivated there by 3000 14C yr BP. Although milder Hypsithermal climate may have been a contributing factor, squash and gourds expanded northward during the mid-Holocene mainly by human agency and may be the first human-introduced adventive plant in temperate North America. Even after 3000 14C yr BP, when domesticated squash generally replaced wild varieties at northern sites, squash stands were probably informally managed rather than intensively cultivated. |
| Keywords: | Cucurbita Squash Plant domestication Biogeography Food production Great Lakes Paleoeconomy Late Archaic Hypsithermal |
| 本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录！ | |