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• Physical Description: 140 pages : illustrations (maps) diagrams ; 26 cm.
• Publisher: New York, Viking Fund, 1945.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 134-140).

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- Southwestern background -- Distribution of the domesticated cucurbits and the implied cultural derivations -- Distribution of maize in the Southwest -- Distribution of the tepary bean -- Distribution of the kidney bean -- Minor crops of Hohokam origin -- Climate and crop distribution in the Southwest -- Irrigation and agriculture -- Areal differentiation within the Southwest on the basis of crop assemblages -- Age of cultures as deduced from evidence on plant domestication.

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Subject:

Indians of North America > Agriculture.
Indians of North America > Southwest, New.
Plants, Cultivated > Southwest, New.

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• Viking fund publications in anthropology, no. 5
• Viking Fund publications in anthropology ; no. 5.