Maize for the Gods : unearthing the 9,000-year history of corn / Michael Blake.
| Author/creator | Blake, Michael, 1953- author. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015] |
| Copyright Date | ©2015 |
| Description | 1 online resource : color illustrations, maps |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Unearthing the 9,000-year history of corn |
| Contents | The archaeology of Maize -- The place of Maize in (agri)cultural origin stories -- Old puzzles and new questions about Maize's origins and spread -- Timing is everything: dating Maize -- Maize through a magnifying glass: macro-remains -- Maize through a microscope: micro-remains -- Elemental Maize: tracing Maize isotopically -- Genetically modified Maize; the old way: by agriculture -- Daily tools and sacred symbols. |
| Abstract | "Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop--grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists as they trace the history of Maize, exploring the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia. From Maize's first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey throughout most of North and South America, this history is also the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Blake, Michael, 1953- Maize for the Gods 9780520276871 |
| Genre/form | Electronic book. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780520961692 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 0520961692 (electronic bk.) |
| Stock number | 0BF69DC4-8EEF-486B-B4AD-3C9D749DF70F OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com |
| Stock number | 22573/ctv1wpxk1 JSTOR |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |