Maize for the Gods
Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn
Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant?Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia.…
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- ISBN: 978-0-520-96169-2
- EAN: 9780520961692
- Produktnummer: 21596682
- Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 12'428 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Michael Blake is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia who studies the origins of maize agriculture in the Americas and the emergence of sociopolitical complexity in Mesoamerica and the Northwest Coast of Canada. He is the author of Colonization, Warfare, and Exchange at the Postclassic Maya Site of Canajaste, Chiapas, Mexico and the editor of Pacific Latin America in Prehistory.
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