Deerskins and Domesticates: Creek Subsistence and Economic Strategies in the Historic Period
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman
American Antiquity, vol. 72, no. 1, January 2007, pp. 5-33
Description
Suggests that involvement in the deerskin trade suppressed the adoption of animal husbandry and only after this market collapsed did domestic animals become the main source of meat in the diet of the Creek Indians.