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245 00 $aHistories of maize in Mesoamerica :$bmultidisciplinary approaches /$cJohn E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz, editors.
260 $aWalnut Creek, Calif. :$bLeft Coast Press,$cc2010.
300 $a280 p. :$bill., maps ;$c28 cm.
500 $aThis volume is an abridgement of: Histories of maize, Academic Press, 2006.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction to the Histories of maize in Mesoamerica /$rJohn E. Staller --$gpt 1. Histories of maize : genetic, morphological, and microbotanical evidence.$tDiffering approaches and perceptions in the study of new and old world crops /$rTerence A. Brown --$tMaize in the Americas /$rBruce F. Benz --$tAncient DNA and the integration of archaeological and genetic approaches to the study of maize domestication /$rViviane Jaenicke-Després and Bruce D. Smith --$tDating the initial spread of Zea mays /$rMichael Blake --$tTowards a biologically based method of phytolith classification /$rGreg Laden --$gpt. 2. Histories of maize : domestication and production.$tEarly agriculture in Chihuahua, Mexico /$rRobert J. Hard ... [et al.] --$tEl Riego and early maize evolution /$rBruce F. Benz ... [et al.] --$tThe maize revolution : a view from El Salvador /$rRobert A. Dull --$tPre-Columbian maize agriculture in Costa Rica : pollen and other evidence from lake and swamp sediments /$rSally P. Horn --$tCaribbean maize : first farmers to Columbus /$rLee Newsom --$gpt. 3. Histories of maize : isotope analysis and human diet in ancient Mesoamerica.$tIsotope analyses and the history of maize /$rRobert H. Tykot --$tSocial directions in the isotopic anthropology of maize in the Maya region /$rChristine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Henry P. Schwarcz --$tEarly to terminal classic Maya diet in the northern lowlands of the Yucatán (Mexico) /$rEugenia Brown Mansell ... [et al.] --$tDiet in prehistoric Soconusco /$rBrian Chisholm and Michael Blake --$tStable carbon isotope analysis and human diet in Mesoamerica : a synthesis /$rHenry P. Schwarcz --$gpt. 4. Histories of maize : the language of maize in Mesoamerica.$tThipaak and the origins of maize in northen Mesoamerica /$rJanis B. Alcorn, Barbara Edmonson, and Cándido Hernández Vidales --$tMaize in word and image in southeastern Mesoamerica /$rBrian Stross --$tThe place of maize in indigenous Mesoamerican folk taxonomies /$rNicholas A. Hopkins --$tThe historical linguistics of maize cultivation in Mesoamerica and North America /$rJane H. Hill --$tGlottochronology and the chronology of maize in the Americas /$rCecil H. Brown --$gConclusion.$tThe antiquity, biogeography and culture history of maize in Mesoamerica /$rBruce F. Benz and John E. Staller.
650 0 $aCorn$xHistory.
650 0 $aIndians of Mexico$xAgriculture$xHistory.
650 0 $aIndians of Central America$xAgriculture$xHistory.
700 1 $aStaller, John E.
700 1 $aTykot, Robert H.
700 1 $aBenz, Bruce F.
730 0 $aHistories of maize.
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1407/2012397150-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1407/2012397150-b.html