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Domestication of plants in eastern North America was well underway by 3000 BCE, but the process began thousands of years earlier. People first populated this region during the late Pleistocene, at least 13,000 years ago, and their interactions with edible plants and animals set the stage for future developments. Nuts—especially acorns, hickories, and walnuts——were harvested as soon as post-Pleistocene climatic conditions stabilized, and the burning of understory vegetation served both to enhance mast production and improve hunters’ abilities to procure deer using atlatls (Wagner 2003).