Pecans & Nuts in North American Archaeology 🌰

Mast resources, or the nutty foods harvested from trees, were so valuable to pre-colonial Americans that they managed their woodlands with extensive controlled burns.

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Further Reading:

Abrams, Marc D., and Gregory J. Nowacki 2008 Native Americans as Active and Passive Promoters of Mast and Fruit Trees in the Eastern USA. The Holocene 18:1123–1137.