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An Introduction to a Tandem Review on Gayle Fritz’s Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland

Sarah Walshaw^1*

¹Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.

^*sarah_walshaw@sfu.ca                                                                                                                                                                   

Received December 20, 2024 | Accepted December 27, 2024 | Published December 28, 2024

Ethnobiology Letters 2024 15(1):97 | DOI 10.14237/ebl.15.1.2024.1928

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Ethnobiology Letters is pleased to bring readers our first tandem review in volume 15 of Gayle Fritz’s Feeding Cahokia: Early Agriculture in the North American Heartland. Kathleen Forste considers what Fritz offers to undergraduate teaching and learning of early agriculture and archaeobotany. Neal Lopinot shares what makes this volume so valuable to archaeologists and archaeobotanical researchers, from regional specialists to global scholars of the origins of agriculture. Individually, they stand alone as important reviews of Fritz’s magnum opus; read together, they show the strength of the evidence and breadth of the insights Fritz brings from decades of research into the Eastern Agricultural Complex.