Histories of Maize - Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize

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Contents

List of Contributors

• An Introduction to the Histories of Maize John E. Staller

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
• 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-Despres 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 Yucatan (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 Renee 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 Candido Hernandez 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. Chavez
• 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