[Aztlan] Maize Farming In Mexico - Earliest Evidence

[Nicholas Hopkins]

A lengthy story on these discoveries is also featured on the FSU  
website front page, www.fsu.edu (with a nice photo of Mary!).

Nick Hopkins

On Apr 10, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Elaine Day Schele wrote:

>> From Science Daily:
> Source: Florida State University
> Date: April 9, 2007
> Anthropologist Finds Earliest Evidence Of Maize Farming In Mexico
> Science Daily - A Florida State University anthropologist has new  
> evidence that ancient farmers in Mexico were cultivating an early  
> form of maize, the forerunner of modern corn, about 7,300 years ago  
> - 1,200 years earlier than scholars previously thought.
>
> Professor Mary Pohl conducted an analysis of sediments in the Gulf  
> Coast of Tabasco, Mexico, and concluded that people were planting  
> crops in the "New World" of the Americas around 5,300 B.C. The  
> analysis extends Pohl's previous work in this area and validates  
> principles of microfossil data collection.
>
> The results of Pohl's study, which she conducted along with Dolores  
> R. Piperno of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington,  
> D.C. and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in the  
> Republic of Panama, Kevin O. Pope of Geo Arc Research and John G.  
> Jones of Washington State University, will be published in the  
> April 9-13 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National  
> Academy of Sciences.
>
> For the rest of the story: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/ 
> 2007/04/070409181647.htm
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