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100			_aMueller, Natalie G _952674
245			_aBison, anthropogenic fire, and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America
260			_bsage _c2021
300			_aVol 8, Issue 2, 2021 : (141-158 p.).
520			_aScholars have argued that plant domestication in eastern North America involved human interactions with floodplain weeds in woodlands that had few other early successional environments. Archeological evidence for plant domestication in this region occurs along the Mississippi river and major tributaries such as the Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers. But this region is also known as the prairie peninsula: a prairie-woodland mosaic that was maintained by anthropogenic fire starting as early as 6000 BP. Contrary to conventional wisdom, recent research has shown that bison were also present in the prairie peninsula throughout the Holocene. Recent reintroductions of bison to tallgrass prairies have allowed ecologists to study the effects of their grazing on this ecosystem for the first time. Like rivers and humans, bison create early successional habitats for annual forbs and grasses, including the progenitors of eastern North American crops, within tallgrass prairies. Our fieldwork has shown that crop progenitors are conspicuous members of plant communities along bison trails and in wallows. We argue that ancient foragers encountered dense, easily harvestable stands of crop progenitors as they moved along bison trails, and that the ecosystems created by bison and anthropogenic fire served as a template for the later agroecosystem of this region. Without denying the importance of human-river interactions highlighted by previous researchers, we suggest that prairies have been ignored as possible loci for domestication, largely because the disturbed, biodiverse tallgrass prairies created by bison have only been recreated in the past three decades after a century of extinction.
650			_abison, domestication, _952675
650			_aeastern agricultural complex, _949666
650			_aHordeum pusillum, _952676
650			_aIva annua, _952677
650			_aPhalaris caroliniana, _951246
650			_aseed dispersal, _952717
650			_atallgrass prairie _952718
700			_aSpengler, Robert N _952678
700			_aGlenn, Ashley _952719
700			_a Lama, Kunsang _952720
773	0		_010524 _915375 _dSage Pub. 2019 - _tAnthropocene review/ _x2053-020X
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/2053019620961119
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