Early maize agriculture and interzonal interaction in southern Peru

Nature

Volumn 440, Issue 7080, 2006, Pages 76-79

  Perry, Linda ^a   Sandweiss, Daniel H ^b,c   Piperno, Dolores R ^a,d   Rademaker, Kurt ^c   Malpass, Michael A ^e   Umire, Adán ^f   De La Vera, Pablo ^g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b University of Maine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^f Museo Contisuyo   (Peru)

^g Instituto Nacional de Cultura   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROPS; FOSSIL FUELS; PLANTS (BOTANY);

MICROFOSSIL ANALYSIS; PLANT MICROREMAINS;

AGRICULTURE;

CARBON 14; STARCH;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HOLOCENE; MAIZE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; EXTRACTION; FLOUR; FOOD PROCESSING; FOSSIL; MAIZE; PERU; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; FARM CROPS; FOSSIL FUELS; PLANTS;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA;

SOLANUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33644780778     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04294     Document Type: Article

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