Maize : origin, domestication, and its role in the development of culture / Duccio Bonavia.
"This book examines one of the thorniest problems of ancient American archaeology: the origins and domestication of maize"--
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Cambridge, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The maize problematic
- 2. Maize as seen by Europeans
- 3. The origin of maize
- 4. The domestication of maize
- 5. The archaeological evidence
- 6. The role of maize in Andean culture
- 7. Maize as seen by the first Europeans
- 8. The dispersal of maize around the world
- 9. Chica
- 10. Discussion and conclusions
- Appendix. Alexander Grobman.