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This volume reprints 20 chapters from the editors' comprehensive
Histories of Maize (2006) that are relevant to Mesoamerican
specialists and students. New findings and interpretations from the
past three years have been included. Histories of Maize is the most
comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic,
archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize
published. Included in this abridged volume are new introductory
and concluding chapters and updated material on isotopic research.
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.
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. Histories of Maize is the most
comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic,
archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize
published to date. This book will appeal to a varied audience, and
have no titles competiting with it because of its breadth and
scope. The volume offers a single source of high quality summary
information unavailable elsewhere.
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