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Corn and culture in the prehistoric New World / edited by Sissel Johannessen and Christine A. Hastorf.

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Corn and culture in the prehistoric New World / edited by Sissel Johannessen and Christine A. Hastorf.
Publication
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c1994.

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Additional Authors
  • Johannessen, Sissel.
  • Hastorf, Christine Ann, 1950-
Description
xvii, 623 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Series Statement
University of Minnesota publications in anthropology ; no. 5
Uniform Title
University of Minnesota publications in anthropology ; no. 5.
Alternative Title
Corn & culture in the prehistoric New World.
Subjects
Note
  • Papers from a conference held at the University of Minnesota in May 1990.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-623).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Manual for the measurement of maize cobs / Robert McK. Bird -- Can prehistoric racial diversification be deciphered from burned corn cobs? / Bruce F. Benz -- Variability in cob and kernel characteristics of North American maize cultivars / Frances B. King -- Interpreting carbon stable isotope ratios / Margaret J. Schoeninger and Mark R. Schurr -- A chemical method of identifying charred plant remains using infra-red spectroscopy / J.B. Letts ... [et al.] -- Sex expression and sequencing during the origin and improvement of maize / Walton C. Galinat -- Racial sampling and identification in maize / M.M. Goodman -- Morphology, molecules, and maize / John F. Doebley -- Molecular characterization of ancient maize / Pierre Goloubinoff, Svante Pääbo, and Allan C. Wilson.
  • Modern variability and patterns of maize movement in Mesoamerica / José Jesús Sánchez González -- Reconstructing the racial phylogeny of Mexican maize / Bruce F. Benz -- Evidence of maize use at Early and Middle Preclassic La Venta Olmec sites / William F. Rust and Barbara W. Leyden -- Zea mays in the West Indies / Lee A. Newsom and Kathleen A. Deagan -- Variation in modern Andean maize and its implications for prehistoric patterns / Ricardo Sevilla -- Issues in the analysis and interpretation of archaeological maize in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall -- A regional synthesis of Zea mays in the prehistoric American Southwest / Karen R. Adams -- Maize on the Middle Pecos River / Sandra L. Dunavan -- Corn and culture history in the Central Plains / Mary J. Adair -- Corn in Eastern Woodlands late prehistory / Gail E. Wagner -- Variability in late prehistoric corn from the lower Southeast / C. Margaret Scarry -- The advent of prehistoric maize in New England / Jeffrey C.M. Bendremer and Robert E. Dewar.
  • Corn for the dead / George Gumerman IV -- The social context of early maize in the Mid-Ohio Valley / Dee Anne Wymer -- Becoming corn-eaters in prehistoric America / Christine A. Hastorf and Sissel Johannessen -- Corn, beans, and squash / Catherine S. Fowler -- Maize in Middle American and Southwestern United States agricultural traditions / Vorsila L. Bohrer -- Corn is our mother / Richard I. Ford -- Some cultural meanings of corn in aboriginal North Amrica / Alfonso Ortiz.
ISBN
0813383757 (acid-free paper) :
LCCN
^^^91016095^
OCLC
  • 23769670
  • SCSB-10277200
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library