Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica

Introduction to the Histories of Maize in Mesoamerica, John E. Staller; Part 1 Histories of Maize:; Chapter 1 Differing Approaches and Perceptions in the Study of New and Old World Crops, Terence A. Brown; Chapter 2 Maize in the Americas, Bruce F. Benz; Chapter 3 Ancient DNA and the Integration of Archaeological and Genetic Approaches to the Study of Maize Domestication, Viviane R. Jaenicke-Despres, Bruce D. Smith; Chapter 4 Dating the Initial Spread of Zea mays, Michael Blake; Chapter 5 Toward a Biologically Based Method of Phytolith Classification, Greg Laden; Part II Histories of Maize:; Chapter 6 Early Agriculture in Chihuahua, Mexico, Robert J. Hard, A. C. Macwilliams, John R. Roney, Karen R. Adams, William L. Merrill; Chapter 7 El Riego and Early Maize Agricultural Evolution, Bruce F. Benz, Li Cheng, Steven W. Leavitt, Chris Eastoe; Chapter 8 The Maize Revolution, Robert A. Dull; Chapter 9 Pre-Columbian Maize Agriculture in Costa Rica, Sally P. Horn; Chapter 10 Caribbean Maize, Lee A. Newsom; Part III Histories of Maize:; Chapter 11 Isotope Analysis and the Histories of Maize; Chapter 12 Social Directions in the Isotopic Anthropology of Maize in the Maya Region, Christine D. White, Fred J. Longstaffe, Henry P. Schwarcz; Chapter 13 Early to Terminal Classic Maya Diet in the Northern Lowlands of the Yucatan (Mexico), Eugenia Brown Mansell, Robert H. Tykot, David A. Freidel, Bruce H. Dahlin, Traci Ardren; Chapter 14 Diet in Prehistoric Soconusco, Brian Chisholm, Blake Michael; Chapter 15 Stable Carbon Isotope Analysis and Human Diet in Mesoamerica: A Synthesis, Henry P. Schwachz; Part IV Histories of Maize; Chapter 16 Thipaak and the Origins of Maize in Northern Mesoamerica, Janis B. Alcorn, Barbara Edmonson, HernAndez Vidales CAndido; Chapter 17 Maize in Word and Image in Southeastern Mesoamerica, Stross Brian; Chapter 18 The Place of Maize in Indigenous Mesoamerican Folk Taxonomies, Nicholas A. Hopkins; Chapter 19 The Historical Linguistics of Maize Cultivation in Mesoamerica and North America, Jane H. Hill; Chapter 20 Glottochronology and the Chronology of Maize in the Americas, Cecil H. Brown; Chapter 21 The Antiquity, Biogeography and Culture History of Maize in Mesoamerica, F. Benz Bruce, John E. Staller;