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The Archaeological Evidence for Manioc Cultivation: A Cautionary Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Warren R. DeBoer
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Abstract

In the humid tropics of the Americas, where preservation of plant materials is unlikely, archaeological evidence for manioc cultivation largely consists of artifacts which are similar to artifacts associated with manioc cultivation in the ethnographic record and which, by analogy, were similarly used in the prehistoric past. The validity of this inference by analogy is examined in terms of ceramic platters and stone grater teeth, two of the most commonly cited evidences for manioc cultivation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 419 - 433
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1975

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