Antiquity of early Holocene small-seed consumption and processing at Danger Cave

• Autores: David Rhode, David B. Madsen, Kevin T. Jones
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 80, Nº 308, 2006, págs. 328-339
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • When did people start to eat small seeds, and what drove them to it? New investigations and dating at the Danger Cave in the American Great Basin show that seeds (pickleweed seeds) did not become part of the staple diet until after 8700 b.p. It was at this time that animal and plant resources had begun to seriously diminish in a shrinking wetland