Weed, Tuber, and Maize Farming in the Americas

• Main Author: Barker, Graeme
• Format: Book Part
• Language: unknown
• Published: Oxford University Press 2006
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Cape Horn; Pacific; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199281091.003.0012

The American continent extends over 12,000 kilometres from Alaska to Cape Horn, and encompasses an enormous variety of environments from arctic to tropical. For the purposes of this discussion, such a huge variety has to be simplified into a few major geographical units within the three regions of N...