Further reading
Bermejo, J.E.H. and J. Leon (eds.). Neglected Crops: 1492 from a Different Perspective. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 1994.
Blake, M. and H. Neff.
‘Evidence for the diversity of late Archaic and early Formative plant use in the Soconusco region of Mexico and Guatemala.' In R.G. Lesure (ed.), Early Mesoamerican Social Transformations: Archaic and Formative Lifeways in the Soconusco Region. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. 47-66.Boyd, M., T. Varney, C. Surette, and J. Surette. ‘Reassessing the northern limit of maize consumption in North America: stable isotope, plant microfossil, and trace element content of carbonized food residue.' Journal of Archaeological Science, 35 (2008), 2545-56.
Byers, D.S. (ed.). The Prehistory of the Tehuacan Valley, vol. ι: Environment and Subsistence. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967.
Chandler-Ezell, K., D.M. Pearsall, and J.A. Zeidler. ‘Root and tuber phytoliths and starch grains document manioc (Manihot esculenta), arrowroot (Maranta arundinacea), and Ueren (Calathea sp.) at the Real Alto site, Ecuador.' Economic Botany, 60 (2006), 103-20.
Clark, J.E., J.L. Gibson, and J. Zeidler. ‘First towns in the Americas: searching for agriculture, population growth, and other enabling conditions.' In M.S. Bandy and J.R. Fox (eds.), Becoming Villagers: ComparingEarly Village Societies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. 205-45.
Denevan, W.M. Cultivated Landscapes of Native Amazonia and the Andes. Oxford University Press, 2001.
Denham, T.P., J. Iriarte, and L. Vrydaghs (eds.). Rethinking Agriculture: Archaeological and Ethnoarchaeological Perspectives. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2007.
Dillehay, T.D., J. Rossen, T.C. Andres, and D.E. Williams. ‘Preceramic adoption of peanut, squash, and cotton in northern Peru.' Science, 316 (2007), 1890-3.
Donkin, R.A. Agricultural Terracing in the Aboriginal New World. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 56. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1979.
Erickson, C.L. ‘The dating of raised-field agriculture in the Lake Titicaca basin, Peru.' In W.M. Denevan, K. Mathewson, and G. Knapp (eds.), Pre-Hispanic Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 1987. 373-84.
Hard, RJ. and J.R. Roney. ‘The transition to farming on the Rio Casas Grandes and in the southern Jornada Mogollon region.' In BJ. Vierra (ed.), The Late Archaic across the Borderlands: From Foraging to Farming. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. 141-86.
Harlan, J.R. Crops and Man. 2nd edn. Madison, WI: American Society of Agronomy, 1992. Hawkes, J.G. The Potato: Evolution, Biodiversity, and Genetic Resources. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990.
Huckell, L.W. and M.S. Toll. ‘Wild plant use in the North American Southwest.' In P.E. Minnis (ed.), People and Plants in Ancient Western North America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2004. 37-114.
MacNeish, R.S., M.L. Fowler, A. Garcia Cook, et al. (eds.). The Prehistory of the Tehuacan Valley, vol. v: Excavations and Reconnaissance. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1972.
Minnis, P.E. (ed.). People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2003.
Motley, TJ., N. Zerega, and H. Cross (eds.). Darwin's Harvest: New Approaches to the Origins, Evolution, and Conservation of Crops. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 67-90.
PearsaU, D.M. Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2004.
Pearsall, D.M. and P.W. Stahl. ‘The origins and spread of early agriculture and domestication: environmental and cultural considerations.' In J.A. Matthews (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Environmental Change. 2 vols. Los Angeles: Sage, 2012. vol.
ii, 328-54.Piperno, D.R. and T.D. Dillehay. ‘Starch grains on human teeth reveal early broad crop diet in northern Peru.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105 (2008), 19622-7.
Piperno, D.R. and D.M. PearsaU. The Origins of Agriculture in the Lowland Neotropics. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998.
Piperno, D.R., AJ. Ranere, I. Holst, J. Iriarte, and R. Dickau. ‘Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium bp maize from the central Balsas River vaUey, Mexico.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (2009), 5020-4.
Raymond, J.S. and R.L. Burger (eds.). Archaeology of Formative Ecuador. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2003.
Sauer, J.D. Historical Geography of Crop Plants: A SelectRoster. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1993.
Silverman, H. and W.H. IsbeU (eds.). Handbook of South American Archaeology. New York: Springer, 2008. 157-83.
Simmonds, N.W. and J. Smartt (eds.). Evolution of Crop Plants. 2nd edn. Essex: Longman Scientific & Technical, 1995. 383-8.
Stone, D. (ed.). Pre-Columbian Plant Migration. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 76. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Webster, L.D., M.E. McBrinn, and E.G. Carrera (eds.). Archaeology Without Borders: Contact, Commerce, and Change in the US Southwest and Northwestern Mexico. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008.