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Histories of maize : multidisciplinary approaches to the prehistory, linguistics, biogeography, domestication, and evolution of maize / edited by John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz

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Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xxv, 678 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Staller, John E., Tykot, Robert H., and Benz, Bruce F.
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Contents
pt. 1. Histories of maize : genetic, morphological, and microbotanical evidence -- pt. 2. Stable isotope analysis and human diet -- pt. 3. Histories of maize : the spread of maize in Central and South America -- pt. 4. Histories of maize : North America and northern Mexico -- pt. 5. Histories of maize : the language of maize.
Summary
Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize. The volume also includes ethnograph.
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ISBN
9781598747829 (electronic bk.)
1598747827 (electronic bk.)
9780123693648
0123693640
9781598744620
1598744623
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Originally published in 2006 by Elsevier/Academic Press.
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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