ISBN:
0-8133-8375-7
,
978-0-8133-8375-0
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 623 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
University of Minnesota Publications in Anthropology Number 5
Keywords:
Amerika Indianer, präkolumbianisch
;
Indianer, Amerika
;
Mais
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Nutzpflanze
;
Archäologie
;
Prähistorie, Am
;
Paläobotanik
;
Kulturgeschichte
Abstract:
The use of maize was a widespread New World prehistoric cultural phenomenon. This unique crop was cultivated from Mesoamerica to thousands of miles away, across much of South and North America. The plant was shaped, changed, and diversified by the cultures and the environments into which it was taken. The interdependence and coevolution of maize and the people who grew it make the history of maize important to archaeologists, anthropologists, and crop scientists.The quantitative increase and methodological improvement in the recovery of crop remains from archaeological sites have provided an unprecedented opportunity for study of the evolution and phytogeography of maize, shedding light on the cultural history of prehistoric New World peoples. In this volume, scholars from the fields of achaeology, agronomy, genetics, linguistics, and biochemistry address methodological, substantive, and interpretive aspects of understanding prehistorc maize. They examine tradtional and new methods for analyzing archaeological maize and evaluating evolutionary relationships among miiaze types; evaluate patterns of prehistoric maize variation in South America, Mesoamerica, and North America; and explore the many cultural roles of maize in the rich texture of indigenous cultures. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- About the contributors -- Introduction / Sissel Johannessen and Christine A. Hastorf -- Pt. 1. Methods -- Introduction to Part One / Sissel Johannessen. 1. Manual for the Measurement of Maize Cobs / Robert McK. Bird. 2. Can Prehistoric Racial Diversification Be Deciphered from Burned Corn Cobs? / Bruce F. Benz. 3. Variability in Cob and Kernel Characteristics of North American Maize Cultivars / Frances B. King. 4. Interpreting Carbon Stable Isotope Ratios / Margaret J. Schoeninger and Mark R. Schurr. 5. A Chemical Method of Identifying Charred Plant Remains Using Infra-Red Spectroscopy / J. B. Letts, J. Evans, M. Fung and G. C. Hillman -- Pt. 2. Evolutionary Relationships -- Introduction to Part Two / John F. Doebley. 6. Sex Expression and Sequencing During the Origin and Improvement of Maize / Walton C. Galinat. 7. Racial Sampling and Identification in Maize: Quantitative Genetic Variation Versus Environmental Effects / M. M. Goodman. 8. Morphology, Molecules, and Maize / John F. Doebley. 9. Molecular Characterization of Ancient Maize: Potentials and Pitfalls / Pierre Goloubinoff, Svante Paabo and Allan C. Wilson -- Pt. 3. Variations in Time and Space -- Introduction to Part Three / Christine A. Hastorf and Sissel Johannessen. 10. Modern Variability and Patterns of Maize Movement in Mesoamerica / Jose Jesus Sanchez Gonzalez. 11. Reconstructing the Racial Phylogeny of Mexican Maize: Where Do We Stand? / Bruce F. Benz. 12. Evidence of Maize Use at Early and Middle Preclassic La Venta Olmec Sites / William F. Rust and Barbara W. Leyden. 13. Zea mays in the West Indies: The Archaeological and Early Historic Record / Lee A. Newsom and Kathleen A. Deagan. 14. Variation in Modern Andean Maize and Its Implications for Prehistoric Patterns / Ricardo Sevilla. 15. Issues in the Analysis and Interpretation of Archaeological Maize in South America / Deborah M. Pearsall. 16. A Regional Synthesis of Zea mays in the Prehistoric American Southwest / Karen R. Adams. 17. Maize on the Middle Pecos River: An Analysis of Cobs from the Henderson Pueblo / Sandra L. Dunavan. 18. Corn and Culture History in the Central Plains / Mary J. Adair. 19. Corn in Eastern Woodlands Late Prehistory / Gail E. Wagner. 20. Variability in Late Prehistoric Corn from the Lower Southeast / C. Margaret Scarry. 21. The Advent of Prehistoric Maize in New England / Jeffrey C. M. Bendremer and Robert E. Dewar -- Pt. 4. Cultural Meanings -- Introduction to Part Four / Christine A. Hastorf. 22. Corn for the Dead: The Significance of Zea mays in Moche Burial Offerings / George Gumerman IV. 23. The Social Context of Early Maize in the Mid-Ohio Valley / Dee Anne Wymer. 24. Becoming Corn-Eaters in Prehistoric America / Christine A. Hastorf and Sissel Johannessen. 25. Corn, Beans, and Squash: Some Linguistic Perspectives from Uto-Aztecan / Catherine S. Fowler. 26. Maize in Middle American and Southwestern United States Agricultural Traditions / Vorsila L. Bohrer. 27. Corn Is Our Mother / Richard I. Ford. 28. Some Cultural Meanings of Corn in Aboriginal North America / Alfonso Ortiz -- Index
Note:
Papers from the Corn and Culture Conference, May 1990, at the University of MinnesotaLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite 545-623
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