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Investigating Hunter-Gatherer Earth Oven Intensification: a view from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (2017)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Black. Charles Koenig.

Foraging societies in the semi-arid Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwestern Texas intensified the use of desert succulents over a span of 9,000 years or more for food, fiber, and other uses. Food plants including Agave lechuguilla, sotol, and prickly pear were baked in earth ovens with stone heating elements, an iterative process that left massive residual by-product in the form of fire-cracked rocks and burned and unburned plant refuse in and around baking facilities. The archaeological...