[McClung Museum] [Special Exhibition]

        HARVESTING THE PAST:
        Plants and People in Prehistoric Tennessee

        SUGGESTED READINGS

        • Balick, Michael J. and Paul Alan Cox: Plants and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany. New York: Scientific American Library, 1996.

        • Chapman, Jefferson: Tellico Archaeology: 12,000 Years of Native American History, Revised Edition. Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

        • Chapman, Jefferson, Hazel R. Delcourt, and Paul A. Delcourt, "Strawberry Fields, Almost Forever," Natural History, 9/89: 50-59 (1989).

        • Cowan, C. Wesley and Patty Jo Watson: The Origins of Agriculture: An International Perspective. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

        • Crites, Gary D., "Harvesting the Past: Plants and People in Prehistoric Tennessee," Tennessee Conservationist, September/October 1997.

        • Crites, Gary D., "Tennessee's First Crops: Research in Paleoethnobotany," Frank H. McClung Museum Research Notes No. 3, February 1991.

        • Duke, James A.: Handbook of Edible Weeds. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press, 1992.

        • Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte: Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants. New York: Dover Publications, 1979.

        • Fernald, Merritt Lyndon and Alfred Charles Kinsey: Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America. New York: Harper and Row, 1958.

        • Gremillion, Kristen J., editor: People, Plants, and Landscapes. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1997.

        • Johannessen, Sissel and Christine A. Hastorf, editors: Corn and Culture in the Prehistoric New World. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994.

        • Johnson, Jay K., editor: The Development of Southeastern Archaeology. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1993.

        • MacNeish, Richard S.: The Origins of Agriculture and Settled Life. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992.

        • Scarry, Margaret C., editor: Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1993.

        • Smith, Bruce D.: Rivers of Change: Essays on Early Agriculture in Eastern North America. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.

        • Smith, Bruce D.: The Emergence of Agriculture. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1994.

        • Viola, Herman J. and Carolyn Margolis: Seeds of Change. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

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