[Aztlan] Manioc

[Mary Hopkins]

Cite for the Hather and Hammond article is "Ancient Maya subsistence 
diversity: root and tuber remains from Cuello, Belize" Antiquity 68 (259) 
1994:330-335.

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Jeff Baker wrote:

> Over the last 15 years, manioc remains have been recovered from at least
> three sites in Belize. The only two that I can think of off the top of
> my head are Cuello and Sierra de Agua.
>
> The reference for Cuello is from an Antiquity article around 1990
> coauthored by Norman Hammond (I think the senior author is Jon Hastor,
> but I'm not positive).
>
> The data from Sierra de Agua is based upon a pollen core analyzed by
> John Jones, and discussed in my dissertation and in a 2003 article by
> Dunning and others (found in the "Heterarchy, Political Economy and the
> Ancient Maya: The Three Rivers Region of the East-Central Yucatan
> Peninsula" volume edited by Scarborough, Valdez and Dunning).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Baker
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org
> [mailto:aztlan-bounces at lists.famsi.org] On Behalf Of Nick Hopkins
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 11:42 AM
> To: Aztlan
> Subject: [Aztlan] Manioc
>
> Well, it's no surprise.  The Maya have had a word for manioc since at
> least 2000 BC. (Proto-Mayan *tz'iin or *tz'ihn; see Terry Kaufman's
> Mayan Etymological Dictionary on the FAMSI site, pp. 1089-1090).
>
>
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