Maize for the Gods : unearthing the 9,000-year history of corn / Michael Blake.
"Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop--grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists as they trace t...
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| Other title: | Unearthing the 9,000-year history of corn. |
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- The archaeology of Maize
- The place of Maize in (agri)cultural origin stories
- Old puzzles and new questions about Maize's origins and spread
- Timing is everything: dating Maize
- Maize through a magnifying glass: macro-remains
- Maize through a microscope: micro-remains
- Elemental Maize: tracing Maize isotopically
- Genetically modified Maize; the old way: by agriculture1
- Daily tools and sacred symbols.