| 115845_1_En_BookFrontmatter_OnLinePDF | 1 |
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| 115845_1_En_1_Chapter_OnLinePDF | 8 |
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| Chapter 1: An Introduction to Maize Cobs and Cultures | 8 |
| 115845_1_En_2_Chapter_OnLinePDF | 14 |
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| Chapter 2: Ethnohistory: Impressions and Perceptions of Maize | 14 |
| Ethnohistoric and Ethnographic Perceptions of Maize | 14 |
| Consequences of Conquest and Empire | 16 |
| Western Perceptions of New World Cultures | 19 |
| Using Sixteenth Century Accounts | 21 |
| Early Pre-Linnaean Botanicals | 25 |
| Earliest Sixteenth Century Accounts | 27 |
| Central America and Mexico | 39 |
| Sixteenth Century Agriculture and Plant Cultivation in Mesoamerica | 43 |
| Maize and the Chontal Maya | 48 |
| Storage and Redistribution: Mesoamerican Accounts | 50 |
| First Impressions of Andean Civilization | 52 |
| Storage, Tribute, and Redistribution in the Andes | 58 |
| Maize and Andean Political Economy | 62 |
| Maize and Ancient Religion | 65 |
| Maize and Religious Uses and Rites | 69 |
| Maize: Religious Significance to Mesoamerican Civilization | 73 |
| Early Accounts on Maize Alcohol Consumption | 77 |
| Maize Beer and Pulque in Mesoamerica | 78 |
| Maize Beer in Ritual and Religion in the Andes | 81 |
| Maize Ethnohistory: Summary and Conclusions | 87 |
| 115845_1_En_3_Chapter_OnLinePDF | 91 |
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| Chapter 3: Scientific, Botanical, and Biological Research on Maize | 91 |
| Introduction on a History of Science on Maize | 91 |
| Comparing and Contrasting Old and New World Approaches | 92 |
| Research on the Rise of Early Agriculture | 96 |
| Archaeological, Botanical, and Biological Research on Maize Origins | 99 |
| Early Botanical and Biological Research on the Origins of Maize | 100 |
| Historical Interface of Biological and Archaeological Maize Research | 106 |
| Teosinte and the Search for the Origin of Maize | 111 |
| Approaches to Finding Wild Maize | 119 |
| Pod Corn as Wild Maize | 120 |
| Teosinte as a Progenitor of Maize | 123 |
| Maize: Morphological, Biological, Genetic, and Taxonomic Approaches | 125 |
| Perennial Teosinte and a Reconsideration of the Tripartite Hypothesis | 128 |
| Maize Antiquity and 14C and AMS Chronologies | 129 |
| Phylogenetic Considerations | 134 |
| Early Research on Maize Landraces and their Classification | 137 |
| Maize Landraces in the Americas | 140 |
| Maize Landraces and Colonial Bioprospecting | 143 |
| Morphological versus Genetic Maize Landraces | 146 |
| Genetic Research and Paradigm Shifts | 149 |
| 115845_1_En_4_Chapter_OnLinePDF | 154 |
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| Chapter 4: Ethnobotanic, Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Methodologies | 154 |
| Methodological and Technological Breakthroughs | 154 |
| Comparing Research on Old and New World Ancient Economies | 154 |
| Paleoethnobotany: Methodological Approaches to Domestication | 160 |
| Interdisciplinary Approaches to Domestication, Agriculture, and Adaptation | 164 |
| Plant Domestication and Cultivation | 172 |
| Approaches to Domestication and Cultivation in the Tehuacán Valley | 178 |
| Approaches to Domestication and Cultivation in Oaxaca | 184 |
| Ethnobotanical Approaches to Early Agriculture and Biogeography | 189 |
| Classes of Ethnobotanical Evidence | 192 |
| Pollen Analysis and the Spread of Early Cultigens | 193 |
| Phytolith Analysis and Maize Biogeography | 197 |
| Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Analysis of Phytolith Assemblages | 202 |
| Ethnobotanic Approaches to the Origins of Maize: Central Balsas | 203 |
| Isotope Analysis, Paleodiet, and Geochemical Approaches | 207 |
| Multidisciplinary Approaches to Maize Biogeography | 210 |
| Ethnobotanic and Isotopic Research at La Emerenciana | 216 |
| Advantages to Multidisciplinary Approaches | 224 |
| 115845_1_En_BookBackmatter_OnLinePDF | 229 |
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| : Index | 260 |