The Paleobiolinguistics of Maize (Zea mays L.)
Paleobiolinguistics is used to determine when and where maize (<em>Zea mays</em>) developed significance for different prehistoric groups of Native America. Dates and locations of proto-languages for which maize terms reconstruct generally accord with crop-origin and dispersal informatio...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Society of Ethnobiology
2014-05-01
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| Series: | Ethnobiology Letters |
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| Online Access: | http://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/130 |
| Summary: | Paleobiolinguistics is used to determine when and where maize (<em>Zea mays</em>) developed significance for different prehistoric groups of Native America. Dates and locations of proto-languages for which maize terms reconstruct generally accord with crop-origin and dispersal information from plant genetics and archaeobotany. Paleobiolinguistic and other lines of evidence indicate that human interest in maize was extensive millennia before the widespread development of a village‐farming way of life in the New World. |
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| ISSN: | 2159-8126 |