num_pages: 678
description: Maize is usually described as the primary economic catalyst to complex socio cultural development in both Mesoamerica and Andean South America. In recent years research on maize DNA has initiated information about ancient human diets which have in turn provided new ways of considering the origins of agriculture and its spread. The origin of agriculture triggered a long train of economic political and technological developments. Histories of Maize provides a single source of information about the genetic archaeological and anthropological aspects of ancient maize. Not only will its comprehensive approach make its audience varied but the book will also have no titles competing with it. This book provides contexts that many researches lack because of their narrowly-defined research interests and it offers a single source of high quality summary information that is unavailable elsewhere.
language: English
title: Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize
publisher: Academic Press