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Crop Husbandry Practices in North America’s Eastern Woodlands

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  1. Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, Athens, GA 30602, USA

    Elizabeth J. Reitz

  2. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

    Sylvia J. Scudder

  3. Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115

    C. Margaret Scarry

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Scarry, C.M. (2008). Crop Husbandry Practices in North America’s Eastern Woodlands. In: Reitz, E.J., Scudder, S.J., Scarry, C.M. (eds) Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71303-8_20

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