The Eastern Agricultural Complex was well before corn made its way north. They grew things like lambsquarters, erect knotweed, sunflower, chenopodium, and numerous other native plants.
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@Hashpants for the wine with @Foreigner a close secondā
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These are delicious i wild forage things and often i get volunteers in the garden lambs quarters tastes like onions to me delicious in a salad or stew
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Odds are what you are foraging are remnants of the plants spread out by the indigenous people of North America. They say the āwildernessā encountered by early European settlers was actually well managed food forests. (I think lambsquarters is more similar to spinach in taste)
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Raccoons: masters of adaptation.
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Same as the Amazon
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Yep. The stuff theyāre finding now with LiDAR is fascinating. The remnants of vast cities and connected roads.
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I read that the native Indians in my region even had deer somewhat domesticated. They didnāt breed them or keep them penned or fenced in like we think of domestication today, instead they improved the local landscapes for the deer and other mammals to thrive. So Iāve read. Many blessings and much love
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Iām sure they probably developed food plots similar to modern day hunters. I wouldnāt be surprised if they hunted over excess grains much the way some hunters now hunt over corn piles.
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They also had the Buffalo
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I was reading a book on the barter system and traditional transactions predate them.
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i know this to be true they found bones in a cave not to far from ny house and the "native "mounds of ohio are actually giantsā mounds when the native people were asked why they built them so large they said they didnāt they built on top of them and modern academia will only dig so deep for this very reason
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Iām absolutely sure of that. I would assume that gift giving has existed for the entirety of human existence.
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You could argue that it was written down based barter but those kinds of ledgers came first.
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@Foreigner grows mycelium
But only after without having bathed for 6-8 weeks
Gimme a gift and it better be good 
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@Hashpants has taken cultures
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I feel like gifts and barters fall a bit short of the definition of currency. A seed currency would have been a natural progression.imo
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Perhaps tubers would be a worthwhile study? Itās well documented and Iām sure there were rare flowers in ancient times.
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I have found articles discussing the use of chia seeds as currency by the Aztecs and cacao beans as currency by both Mayans and Aztecs.
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On the plains.