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From:Crop Science (Vol. 39, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedUnderstanding the history of a crop helps plant breeders select. This historical narrative discusses the background of hybrid corn (Zea mays L.) in the USA. It attempts to explain why certain open-pollinated cultivars...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe report measurements made on eight corncobs (Zea mays) excavated in the 1890s from Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Seven of these corncobs were analyzed previously in a geochemical study aimed at determining...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSISSEL JOHANNESSEN and CHRISTINE A. HASTORF, editors. University of Minnesota Publications in Anthropology No. 5. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1994. xvii + 623 pp., figures, tables, bibliography. $58.00 (paper)....
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From:Crop Science (Vol. 44, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTo determine genetic relationships among representative popcorns (Zea mays L.) of the New World, 56 maize populations from the USA and nine Latin American countries were characterized for 29 morphological traits, 18...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 67, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedVariation in the Costs and benefits of maize agriculture relative to local foraging opportunities structured variation in the relative intensity of agricultural strategies pursued by prehistoric peoples in the American...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 67, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper (1) presents four new AMS dates taken directly on prehistoric maize found in New England; (2) collects in one place and in a common format the 16 currently available dates directly on maize from the region;...
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From:Latin American Antiquity (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLos restos de maiz en sitios arqueologicos de la region central de Chile son notablemente escasos. Para estudiar la introduccion y adopcion de este cultivo en las poblaciones prehispanicas se discutiran los resultados...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAnalyses of the size, shape, and wear on western Mogollon manos and metates reveal that the dietary importance of maize remained low and stable from the Early Pithouse period (A.D. 200-550) through the Georgetown phase...
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From:Latin American Antiquity (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedStarch and phytolith analyses of an assemblage of chert microliths from the Three Dog site, an early Lucayan settlement on San Salvador, Bahamas, yielded Zea mays, Capsicum, and possible manioc indicating that these...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 64, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedArchaeologists and ethnohistorians have long been interested in quantifying potential maize productivity for late prehistoric and early historic Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands. Maize yields obtained by Native...
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From:New Mexico Journal of ScienceL.S. Cordell [1] Abstract The Anasazi successfully farmed the Colorado Plateau and adjacent regions of northern parts of the Southwest for 1,300 years; their descendants continue to farm ancestral lands in Arizona...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 70, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMetric analyses of recently excavated maize (Zea mays, L.) cupules and cob fragments from Early Agricultural period (2000 B.C.-A.D. 50) sites in southern Arizona indicate that early maize cultivars produced small cobs...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedArchitectural patterning in the American Southwest has long been recognized as a solid manifestation of social patterns of Pueblo groups. The organization of pueblos around plazas and kivas emphasizes the importance of...
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From:Perspectives in Biology and Medicine (Vol. 43, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe most beautiful thing ... is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.--ALBERT EINSTEIN [1] Tlatilco was a farming village on the outskirts of what is now Mexico City, and it has long been...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 62, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTwo accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dates, 5404 [+ or -] 552 B.P. (AA-19129) and 2625 [+ or -] 45 B.P. (AA-19128), confirm the presence of mid-Holocene and early late Holocene cucurbit (Cucurbita pepo), respectively,...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis study investigated intracommunity variation in diet during the introduction and adoption of a new staple crop (maize) into an indigenous horticultural system. Carbon and nitrogen isotopes of human bone collagen...
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From:Latin American Antiquity (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWe propose that pottery-using villages did not appear in the upland Apizaco region of central Tlaxcala, Mexico, until after 1000 B.C., centuries after such developments in choice locations for maize agriculture. We...
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From:Antiquity (Vol. 77, Issue 297) Peer-ReviewedCertain kinds of food can be classed as "luxurious" because they are difficult to procure and reserved for an elite--but luxury foods can be more surely defined from their context of use. Using examples from Andean...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedArchaeological accounts of the spread of agriculture tend to favor either (im)migration/demic diffusion or in situ development/stimulus diffusion. Having moved away from the early twentieth-century's community-wide...
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From:American Antiquity (Vol. 64, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFood-grinding tools in both the New World and the Old World have long been used as subsistence indicators. Previously, variations in tool size and material texture were presumed to have been related to processing...