tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post375869036490886528..comments2024-03-09T15:46:44.638+01:00Comments on For what they were... we are: Maize was common in Peru 5000 years agoMajuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-40263756282863537482013-03-02T14:42:38.888+01:002013-03-02T14:42:38.888+01:00Last year Tom Dillehay from Vanderbilt University ...Last year Tom Dillehay from Vanderbilt University and Duccio Bonavia from Peru’s Academia Nacional de la Historia reported that they had found 6700 years old domesticated maze remains from Paredones and Huaca Prieta on Peru's northern coast. They took the view that maize had come through the land.<br /><br />The oldest remains of domesticated maize from Panama are 7600 years old, found by Anthony Ranere of Temple University and Dolores Piperno of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.<br /><br />In Mexico the oldest domesticated maize comes from the Balsas River valley, where remains going back to 9200 years have been found.Raimo Kangasniemihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07317328563337885584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-27256033028290677172013-03-01T08:18:41.642+01:002013-03-01T08:18:41.642+01:00I don't think so, the first teosinte (proto-ma...I don't think so, the first teosinte (proto-maize) crops seem to be from c. 5000 BCE in Mexico. But it implies flow of ideas between Meso and South America, either by land or sea very early in chronology (but still some 2000 years after Mexico). Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3023805782808412230.post-24595657192064359412013-03-01T03:28:03.445+01:002013-03-01T03:28:03.445+01:00This is extremely interesting. Does it alter the ...This is extremely interesting. Does it alter the prevailing view on where maize was first domesticated?Clayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13747093567397999406noreply@blogger.com