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Early Corn Remains from Tumamoc Hill, Southern Arizona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Paul R. Fish ,
Suzanne K. Fish ,
Austin Long  and
Charles Miksicek
Paul R. Fish
Affiliation:
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Suzanne K. Fish
Affiliation:
Arid Land Studies/Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Austin Long
Affiliation:
Geosciences Department, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
Charles Miksicek
Affiliation:
Arid Land Studies/Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Abstract

The tandem accelerator mass spectrometer provided critical dating of corn remains in Archaic levels of juxtaposed Archaic and Hohokam occupations on Tumamoc Hill in Tucson, Arizona. This new radiometric technology confirmed an Archaic placement suggested by stratigraphy and artifact distributions. The small sample of intact remains resembles other directly-dated early corn in the Southwest and reinforces an interpretation of preceramic cultivators in the Sonoran Desert.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , July 1986 , pp. 563 - 572
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1986

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