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Acorn eating and agricultural origins: California ethnographies as analogies for the ancient Near East

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2015

Joy McCorriston
Joy McCorriston*
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National Museum of Natural History, MRC 112, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560, USA
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Abstract

Since cereals and legumes were successful domesticates, archaeologists and botanists have investigated early domestication with particular emphasis on these plants. What about other foods, which may have been staples in their own time, for which we have no simple continuity into a later subsistence in the classic region of Near Eastern domesticates? The mediterranean climate, and the lifeways, of California provide an analogy.

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 258 , March 1994 , pp. 97 - 107
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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