Corn in clay
Subtitle: maize paleoethnobotany in pre-Columbian art
By: Mary W. Eubanks.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Indian pottery -- Latin America.; Indian art -- Latin America.; Indians -- Ethnobotany.; Corn in art.; Paleoethnobotany -- Latin America.; Latin America -- Antiquities.
Description: Combining botany, archaeology, and art history, Corn in Clay provides a novel approach to the study of contact between ancient American cultures Mary Eubanks integrates evidence from replicas of maize on ancient pottery vessels - from the Oaxaca region of Mexico and the northern coast of Peru - with other biological, archaeological, and geographic evidence to establish a considerable degree of contact between Mesoamerica and the Andean region in pre-Columbian times.

The interdisciplinary nature of this study will make it valuable to botanists, geneticists, and agronomists, as well as archaeologists and anthropologists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index.