Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize
Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm
ISBN: 978-0-12-369364-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology
Histories of Maize is the most comprehensive reference source on the botanical, genetic, archaeological, and anthropological aspects of ancient maize published to date. This book will appeal to a varied audience, and have no titles competiting with it because of its breadth and scope. The volume offers a single source of high quality summary information unavailable elsewhere.
- Introduces the breadth of multidisciplinary research in the anthropological, archaeological, earth, and biological sciences
- Reveals the cultural, religious, and economic significance of maize and goes beyond its role as a primary catalyst to complex sociocultural developments in Mesoamerica, North America and Andean South America
- Provides new information about the importance of maize to pre-Hispanic diets
- Enables readers to follow subjects and related topics through its organization
- Enhances accessibility by means of a consistent article format and extensive index
- Includes chapters on folk taxonomies of maize and linguistic information on it spread and significance to ancient religion, and economic, political and agricultural uses
- Introduces state of the art methodologies and approaches to the identification of maize lineages and their spread and cultural significance in the Americas
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Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Landwirtschaftliche Bewässerung
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
- Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Getreideanbau
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
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An Introduction to the Histories of Maize
John E. Staller
Part I: Histories of Maize: Genetic, Morphological, and Microbotanical Evidence
Part II: Isotope Analysis and Human Diet
Part III: Histories of Maize: Mesoamerica, Central and South America:
The Spread of Maize in Central and South America
Part IV: The Histories of Maize: North America and Northern Mexico
Part V: The Histories of Maize: The Language of Maize