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Pathways to Maize Adoption and Intensification in the Little Miami and Great Miami River Valleys

Weiland, Andrew Welsh
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1489-7352
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565302352191348

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Anthropology.
The archaeological record in the Middle Ohio Valley documents a relatively rapid transition from native domesticated plants and cultigens to maize production. This shift coincided with the cultural historical periods Late Woodland (A.D.400-1000) and Fort Ancient in the Late Prehistoric (A.D. 1000-1650). Previous research has established the chronology and characterized variation among sites across this transition in the Middle Ohio Valley. This dissertation uses high resolution data to explore the paleoethnobotany of four Fort Ancient sites that straddle the transition between these periods in the Little Miami and Great Miami River Valleys in southwestern Ohio and southeastern Indiana. I create a regional model for the maize transition to explore the reasons behind variation in responses to maize. Communities of this time period in the mid-Ohio valley variously ignored maize initially, added it to the existing resource set, or replaced native crops with maize. Opposing hypotheses about whether this transition to maize production was due to resource depression or technological innovation are built using human behavioral ecology’s diet breadth model. Expectations developed from these hypotheses are compared to the archaeobotanical record at sites in this region.
Kristen Gremillion (Committee Chair)
Julie Field (Committee Member)
Joy McCorriston (Committee Member)
Robert Cook (Committee Member)
217 p.
American History; American Studies; Ancient History; Archaeology; History; Native American Studies; Native Americans
Paleoethnobotany; Archaeobotany; Archaeology; Native Americans; Food; Diet; Fort Ancient; Late Prehistoric; Ohio; Human Behavioral Ecology; Plants; Maize; Corn

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  • Weiland, A. W. (2019). Pathways to Maize Adoption and Intensification in the Little Miami and Great Miami River Valleys [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565302352191348

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Weiland, Andrew. Pathways to Maize Adoption and Intensification in the Little Miami and Great Miami River Valleys. 2019. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565302352191348.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Weiland, Andrew. "Pathways to Maize Adoption and Intensification in the Little Miami and Great Miami River Valleys." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1565302352191348

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