Maize for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn

Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and...
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Author: Michael Blake
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Maize for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn by Blake, Michael

Maize for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn

¥11,880

Maize for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn

¥11,880
Author: Michael Blake
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Maize is the world's most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant?

Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore 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. Tracing maize from its first appearance and domestication in ancient campsites and settlements in Mexico to its intercontinental journey through most of North and South America, this history also tells the story of the artistic creativity, technological prowess, and social, political, and economic resilience of America's first peoples.

Author: Michael Blake
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 08/28/2015
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780520286962

About the Author
Michael Blake is Professor and Head of the Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia. He studies the archaeology of Mesoamerica and the Northwest Coast of Canada and is the author of Colonization, Warfare, and Exchange at the Postclassic Maya Site of Canajasté, Chiapas, Mexico (2010) and the editor of Pacific Latin America in Prehistory (1999).

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