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Maize Recovered at La Ponga, an Early Ecuadorian Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ronald D. Lippi ,
Robert McK. Bird  and
David M. Stemper
Ronald D. Lippi
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl 53706
Robert McK. Bird
Affiliation:
Institute for the Study of Plants, Food and Man, P.O. Box 9983, Kirkwood, MO 63122 and Department of Agronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
David M. Stemper
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wl 53706
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Abstract

Recent archaeological excavations at a Machalilla (“Early Formative”) site on Ecuador's south coast have resulted in the recovery of charred maize kernel and cupule fragments. A detailed study of the Machalilla maize described here suggests that two primitive varieties were present on the coast of Ecuador by 1200 B.C. Previously published reports that have attempted to establish the presence of maize during the preceding Valdivia phase are reviewed briefly, and their incompleteness is discussed.

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American Antiquity , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , January 1984 , pp. 118 - 124
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1984

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