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Author: John E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot, Bruce F. Benz

Maize has been described as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural development in the Americas. State of the art research on maize chronology, molecular biology, and stable carbon isotope research on ancient human diets have provided additional lines of evidence on the changing role of maize through time and space and its spread throughout the Americas. The multidisciplinary evidence from the social and biological sciences presented in this volume have generated a much more complex picture of the economic, political, and religious significance of maize. The volume also includes ethnographic research on the uses and roles of maize in indigenous cultures and a linguistic section that includes chapters on indigenous folk taxonomies and the role and meaning of maize to the development of civilization.

Table of Contents:

Part I: Histories of Maize: Genetic, Morphological, and Microbotanical Evidence

Differing Approaches and Perceptions in the Study of New and Old World Crops
Terence A. Brown

Maize in the Americas: A Synthetic Look
Bruce F. Benz

Origin of Polystichy in Maize
Hugh H. Iltis

Dating the Initial Spread of Zea Mays
T. Michael Blake

El Riego and Early Maize Evolution
Bruce F. Benz, Li Cheng, Steven W. Leavitt, and Chris Eastoe

Ancient DNA and the Integration of Archaeological and Genetic Approaches to the Study of Maize Domestication
Viviane Jaenicke-Després and Bruce D. Smith

Ancient Maize in the American Southwest: What Does it Look Like and What Can it Tell Us?
Lisa W. Huckell

Environmental Mosaics, Agricultural Diversity, and the Evolutionary Adoption of Maize in the American Southwest
William E. Doolittle and Jonathan B. Mabry

Towards a Biologically Based Method of Phytolith Classification
Greg Laden

Part II: Isotope Analysis and Human Diet

Isotope Analyses and the Histories of Maize
Robert Tykot

Social Directions in the Isotopic Anthropology of Maize in the Maya Region
Christine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Henry P. Schwarcz

Diet in Prehistoric Soconusco
Brian Chisholm and T. Michael Blake

Early to Terminal Classic Maya Diet in the Northern Lowlands of the Yucatán (Mexico)
Eugenia Brown Mansell, Robert H. Tykot, David A. Freidel, Bruce H. Dahlin, and Traci Ardren

The Importance of Maize in Initial Period and Early Horizon Peru
Robert H. Tykot, Richard L. Burger, and Nikolaas van der Merwe

Maize on the Frontier: Isotopic and Macrobotanical Data from Central-Western Argentina
Adolfo F. Gil, Robert H. Tykot, Gustavo Neme, and Nicole Shelnut

Dietary Variation and Prehistoric Maize Farming in the Middle Ohio Valley
Diana M. Greenlee

A Hard Row to Hoe: Changing Maize Use in the American Bottom and Surrounding Areas
Eleanora A. Reber

Evidence for the Early Use of Maize in Peninsular Florida
Jennifer A. Kelly, Robert H. Tykot, and Jerald T. Milanich

Prehistoric Maize in Southern Ontario: Contributions from Stable Isotope Studies
M. Anne Katzenberg

The Stable and Radio-Isotope Chemistry of Eastern Basketmaker and Pueblo Groups in the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest: Implications for Anasazi Diets, Origins and Abandonments in Southwestern Colorado
Joan Brenner Coltrain, Joel C. Janetski, and Shawn W. Carlyle

The Agricultural Productivity of Chaco Canyon and the Source(s) of Pre-Hispanic Maize found in Pueblo Bonito
Larry Benson, John Stein, Howard Taylor, Richard Friedman, and Thomas C. Windes

Summary of Isotope Section.
Henry Schwarcz

Part III: Histories of Maize: Mesoamerica, Central and South America:
The Spread of Maize in Central and South America

Caribbean Maize: First Farmers to Columbus
Lee Newsom

Maize on the Move
J. Scott Raymond, and Warren R. DeBoer

The Gift of the Variation and Dispersion of Maize: Social and Technological Context in Amerindian Societies
Renée M. Bonzani and Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo

The Maize Revolution: A View from El Salvador
Robert A. Dull

Pre-Columbian Maize Agriculture in Costa Rica: Pollen and Other Evidence from Lake and Swamp Sediments
Sally P. Horn

Caral-Supe and the North-Central Area of Peru: The History of Maize in the Land Where Civilization Came into Being
Ruth Shady

Prehistoric Maize from Northern Chile, An Evaluation of the Evidence
Mario A. Rivera

The Archaeology and Ethnography of Maize Cultivation in the Titicaca
Sergio Chavez and Robert Thompson

The Movements of Maize into Middle Horizon Tiwanaku, Bolivia
Christine A. Hastorf, William T. Whitehead, Maria C. Bruno, and Melanie Wright

The Social, Symbolic and Economic Significance of Zea mays L. in the Late Horizon Period
John E. Staller

Part IV: The Histories of Maize: North America and Northern Mexico

Early Agriculture in Chihuahua, Mexico
Robert J. Hard, A.C. MacWilliams, John R. Roney, Karen R. Adams, and William L. Merrill

Protohistoric and Contact Period Salinas Pueblo Maize: Trend or Departure?
Katharine D. Rainey and Katherine A. Spielmann

Early Maize Agriculture in the Northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico
Bradley J. Vierra and Richard I. Ford

Hominy Technology and the Emergence of Mississippian Societies
Thomas P. Myers

The Migrations of Maize into the Southeastern U.S.
Robert Lusteck

The Science behind the Three Sisters Mound System: An Agronomic Assessment of an Indigenous Agricultural System in the Northeast
Jane Mt. Pleasant

The Origin and Spread of Maize (Zea mays) in New England
Elizabeth S. Chilton

Precontact Maize from Ontario, Canada: Origins, Context, Chronology, Variation, and Plant Associations
Gary W. Crawford, Della Saunders, and David G. Smith

Part V: The Histories of Maize: The Language of Maize

Siouan Tribal Contacts and Dispersions Evidenced in the Terminology for Maize and Other Cultigens
Robert L. Rankin

Maize in Word and Image in Southern Mesoamerica
Brian Stross

Thipaak and the Origins of Maize in Northern Mesoamerica
Janis B. Alcorn, Barbara Edmonson, and Cándido Hernández Vidales

The Place of Maize in Indigenous Mesoamerican Folk Taxonomies
Nicholas A. Hopkins

Native Aymara and Quechua Botanical Terminologies of Zea Mays in the Lake Titicaca and Cuzco Regions
Sergio J. Chávez

The Historical Linguistics of Maize Cultivation in Mesoamerica and North America
Jane H. Hill

Glottochronology and the Chronology of Maize in the Americas
Cecil H. Brown

A Review of the Antiquity, Biogeography and Culture History of Maize in the Americas
Bruce F. Benz and John E. Staller

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