Starch grain and phytolith evidence for early ninth millennium B.P. maize from the Central Balsas River Valley, Mexico

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5019-5024

  Piperno, Dolores R ^a,b   Ranere, Anthony J ^b,c   Holst, Irene ^b   Iriarte, Jose ^d   Dickau, Ruth ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; Maize domestication; Phytoliths; Starch grains

Indexed keywords

STARCH;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; HOLOCENE; MAIZE; MEXICO; MICROFOSSIL; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANT AND FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; POLLEN ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHELTERED WORKSHOP; SQUASH;

AGRICULTURE; ARCHAEOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; CUCURBITA; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MEXICO; POLLEN; STARCH; ZEA MAYS;

CUCURBITA; CUCURBITA ARGYROSPERMA; ZEA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 65249122602     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0812525106     Document Type: Article

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