Studies in Archaeological Maize I
The 'Wild' Maize from San Marcos Cave Reexamined
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 2575504 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Bruce F Benz (0000-0003-0181-6899, Universidad de Guadalajara, autor de correspondencia), Hugh H Iltis (University of Wisconsin–Madison) |
| Año | 1990 |
| Volumen | 55 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 500-511 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1990-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/281280 |
| OpenAlex | W2081770663 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 25 |
| Referencias citadas | 32 |
Cobs of the earliest known archaeological maize from San Marcos Cave in the Tehuacan Valley were reexamined to estimate their morphological similarity to extant Mexican maize races. Cursory examination of these 7,000-year-old specimens aroused suspicion that they are not very closely related morphologically to any thus-far-described modern Mexican race. Statistical comparison of the Tehuacan specimens with 30 races of Mexican maize fully confirmed this suspicion. However, the inclusion in our statistical analysis of an extant race of popcorn from Argentina morphologically similar to the Tehuacan specimens indicated that the two were virtually indistinguishable. These findings imply that the earliest maize from Tehuacan already was fully domesticated, its cobs exhibiting a morphology one would expect had maize evolved from teosinte by way of catastrophic sexual transmutation (Iltis 1983
Archaeology · Biology · Botany · Cave · Domestication · Evolutionary biology · Extant taxon · Geography · Race (biology) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Genetic diversity and population structure · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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| Obras citantes distintas | 25 |
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| Citas por año | 0,74 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 25 |