Regional variation in the importance and uses of maize in the early and middle formative Olmec heartland: New archaeobotanical data from the San Carlos Homestead, Southern Veracruz

Latin American Antiquity

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 509-532

  Van Derwarker, Amber M ^a   Kruger, Robert P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

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EID: 84884802598     PISSN: 10456635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7183/1045-6635.23.4.509     Document Type: Article

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