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Reliability of Identification of Fossil Pollen as Corn*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Edwin B. Kurtz Jr. ,
Henry Tucker  and
James L. Liverman
Edwin B. Kurtz Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. Texas A. and M. CollegeCollege Station, Tex.
Henry Tucker
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. Texas A. and M. CollegeCollege Station, Tex.
James L. Liverman
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz. Texas A. and M. CollegeCollege Station, Tex.
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Abstract

On the basis of present methods of identification of corn pollen, 30% of the pollen collected from maize plants grown under a wide range of environments was misclassified as Tripsacum and teosinte. The results show that the characters used to describe corn pollen are too variable to permit reliable identification of fossil pollen as corn.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , April 1960 , pp. 605 - 606
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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Footnotes

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Contribution from the Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Paper, No. 554.

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