The diffusion of maize to the southwestern United States and its impact

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

Volumn 106, Issue 50, 2009, Pages 21019-21026

  Merrill, William L ^a   Hard, Robert J ^b   Mabry, Jonathan B ^c   Fritz, Gayle J ^d   Adams, Karen R ^e   Roney, John R ^f   MacWilliams, A C ^g  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c Historic Preservation Office City of Tucson   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CROW CANYON ARCHAEOLOGICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f Colinas Cultural Resource Consulting ^*  (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early agriculture; Mesoamerica; Migration; US Southwest; Uto Aztecan

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CARBON 14; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; CERAMICS; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOTYPE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MAIZE; MARRIAGE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; PALEOECOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPEECH; UNITED STATES; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGRICULTURE; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; ZEA MAYS;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 75849142812     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0906075106     Document Type: Review

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