Histories of Maize
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize
- 1st Edition - June 12, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: John Staller, Robert Tykot, Bruce Benz
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 5 9 8 8 - 2
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… Read more
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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.
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.
* Introduces the breadth of multidisciplinary research in the anthropological, archaeological, earth, and biological sciences
* Reveals the cultural, religious, and economic significance of maize and goes beyond its role as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural developments in Mesoamerica, North America and Andean South America
* Provides new information about the importance of maize to pre-Hispanic diets
* Enables readers to follow subjects and related topics through its organization
* Enhances accessibility by means of a consistent article format and extensive index
* Includes chapters on folk taxonomies of maize and linguistic information on it spread and significance to ancient religion, and economic, political and agricultural uses
*Introduces state of the art methodologies and approaches to the identification of maize lineages and their spread and cultural significance in the Americas
* Reveals the cultural, religious, and economic significance of maize and goes beyond its role as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural developments in Mesoamerica, North America and Andean South America
* Provides new information about the importance of maize to pre-Hispanic diets
* Enables readers to follow subjects and related topics through its organization
* Enhances accessibility by means of a consistent article format and extensive index
* Includes chapters on folk taxonomies of maize and linguistic information on it spread and significance to ancient religion, and economic, political and agricultural uses
*Introduces state of the art methodologies and approaches to the identification of maize lineages and their spread and cultural significance in the Americas
Audience/Market:
This handbook is a text/reference. Among its buyers will be graduate students, professors, and professionals who want a single-volume reference book with which they can place their own work on maize in other contexts. There will be very few sales to individuals, and textbook adoptions will be almost nonexistent in this field. However, there should be sales to graduate students, professors, and professionals working on crop genetics and related subjects. Libraries and special libraries will be buyers, not only for their archaeology and anthropology collections but also for their genetics and agricultural sciences collections. This list of Elsevier journals suggests that these latter collections will be more numerous than the former.
Prominent Elsevier journals publishing articles on maize:
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment
Agricultural Systems
Agricultural Water Management
Analytical Chemica Acta
Animal Feed Science and Technology
Atmospheric Environment
Biological Control
Biomass and Bioengineering
Bioresource Technology
Biosystems Engineering
Carbohydrate Polymers
Comptes Rendus Biologies
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Crop Protection
Ecological Modelling
Environmental and Experimental Biology
European Journal of Agronomy
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Field Crops Research
Food Control
Food Microbiology
Gene
Geoderma
Industrial Crops and Products
International Dairy Journal
Journal of Archaeological Science
Journal of Arid Environments
Journal of Environmental Management
Journal of Food Engineering
Journal of Plant Physiology
Journal of Molecular Biology
Microchemical Journal
Peptides
Plant Science
Radiation Physics and Chemistry
Research in Microbiology
Soil and Tillage Research
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Small Ruminant Research
Toxicology Letters
Virology
This handbook is a text/reference. Among its buyers will be graduate students, professors, and professionals who want a single-volume reference book with which they can place their own work on maize in other contexts. There will be very few sales to individuals, and textbook adoptions will be almost nonexistent in this field. However, there should be sales to graduate students, professors, and professionals working on crop genetics and related subjects. Libraries and special libraries will be buyers, not only for their archaeology and anthropology collections but also for their genetics and agricultural sciences collections. This list of Elsevier journals suggests that these latter collections will be more numerous than the former.
Prominent Elsevier journals publishing articles on maize:
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment
Agricultural Systems
Agricultural Water Management
Analytical Chemica Acta
Animal Feed Science and Technology
Atmospheric Environment
Biological Control
Biomass and Bioengineering
Bioresource Technology
Biosystems Engineering
Carbohydrate Polymers
Comptes Rendus Biologies
Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
Crop Protection
Ecological Modelling
Environmental and Experimental Biology
European Journal of Agronomy
FEMS Microbiology Ecology
Field Crops Research
Food Control
Food Microbiology
Gene
Geoderma
Industrial Crops and Products
International Dairy Journal
Journal of Archaeological Science
Journal of Arid Environments
Journal of Environmental Management
Journal of Food Engineering
Journal of Plant Physiology
Journal of Molecular Biology
Microchemical Journal
Peptides
Plant Science
Radiation Physics and Chemistry
Research in Microbiology
Soil and Tillage Research
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Small Ruminant Research
Toxicology Letters
Virology
Table of 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 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
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 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
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 12, 2006
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
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John Staller
Affiliations and expertise
University of Kentucky, Lexington, USART
Robert Tykot
Affiliations and expertise
University of South Florida, Tampa, U.S.A.BB
Bruce Benz
Affiliations and expertise
Texas Wesleyan University, Ft. Worth, U.S.A.