Woodland Period Horticulturalists in East Tennessee

Expanding on the cultivation efforts of their Late Archaic predecessors, Early (3000-2200 BP) and Middle Woodland  (2200-1400 BP) groups in East Tennessee left a larger imprint in the region, with increasing numbers of sites demonstrating greater intensity of occupation.  This paper pulls together paleoethnobotanical data from a series of sites in the Ridge and Valley region and compares shifts (or lack thereof) in plant use to changes in site use through time.