This volume is an abridgement of: Histories of maize, Academic Press, 2006.
Contents:
Introduction to the Histories of maize in Mesoamerica / John E. Staller -- pt 1. 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 / Bruce F. Benz -- Ancient DNA and the integration of archaeological and genetic approaches to the study of maize domestication / Viviane Jaenicke-Després and Bruce D. Smith -- Dating the initial spread of Zea mays / Michael Blake -- Towards a biologically based method of phytolith classification / Greg Laden -- pt. 2. Histories of maize : domestication and production. Early agriculture in Chihuahua, Mexico / Robert J. Hard ... [et al.] -- El Riego and early maize evolution / Bruce F. Benz ... [et al.] -- 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 -- Caribbean maize : first farmers to Columbus / Lee Newsom -- pt. 3. Histories of maize : isotope analysis and human diet in ancient Mesoamerica. Isotope analyses and the history of maize / Robert H. Tykot -- Social directions in the isotopic anthropology of maize in the Maya region / Christine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe, and Henry P. Schwarcz -- Early to terminal classic Maya diet in the northern lowlands of the Yucatán (Mexico) / Eugenia Brown Mansell ... [et al.] -- Diet in prehistoric Soconusco / Brian Chisholm and Michael Blake -- Stable carbon isotope analysis and human diet in Mesoamerica : a synthesis / Henry P. Schwarcz -- pt. 4. Histories of maize : the language of maize in Mesoamerica. Thipaak and the origins of maize in northen Mesoamerica / Janis B. Alcorn, Barbara Edmonson, and Cándido Hernández Vidales -- Maize in word and image in southeastern Mesoamerica / Brian Stross -- The place of maize in indigenous Mesoamerican folk taxonomies / Nicholas A. Hopkins -- 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 -- Conclusion. The antiquity, biogeography and culture history of maize in Mesoamerica / Bruce F. Benz and John E. Staller
