The South American agricultural frontier

The first direct evidence for maize consumption in San Luis, Argentina

Bibliographic Data

ID3368041
AuthorsGuillermo Heider (0000-0002-5794-207X, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, corresponding author), Laura López (0000-0003-2331-286X, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas)
Year2018
Volume92
Issue365
Pages1260-1273
Publication date2018-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
PublisherAntiquity Publications (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.15184/aqy.2018.193
OpenAlexW2898416417
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited28

The spread of agriculture across the Andes is a topic of intense archaeological debate, particularly the processes driving the adoption of maize (Zea mays) by mobile hunter-gatherer groups of the Central Pampas of Argentina. This paper presents the first direct botanical evidence of maize from the Late Holocene hunter-gatherer sites of El Durazno and La Alborado in the San Luis province—an area considered climatically unsuited to maize production. These data provide important new information on the production, processing and consumption of maize on a macro-regional scale, and the development of Central Pampas exchange systems

Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Archaeology · Consumption (sociology) · Economics · Frontier · Geography · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

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