ACORN EATING AND AGRICULTURAL ORIGINS - CALIFORNIA ETHNOGRAPHIES AS ANALOGIES FOR THE ANCIENT NEAR-EAST

Since cereals and legumes were successful domesticates, archaeologists and botanists have investigated early domestication with particular e mphasis on these plants. What about other foods, which may have been s taples in their own time, for which we have no simple continuity into a later subsistence in the classic region of Near Eastern domesticates ? The mediterranean climate, and the lifeways, of California provide a n analogy.