Early maize agriculture and interzonal interaction in southern Peru

Linda Perry (), Daniel H. Sandweiss, Dolores R. Piperno, Kurt Rademaker, Michael A. Malpass, Adán Umire and Pablo de la Vera
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Linda Perry: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Daniel H. Sandweiss: University of Maine
Dolores R. Piperno: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Kurt Rademaker: University of Maine
Michael A. Malpass: Ithaca College
Adán Umire: Museo Contisuyo
Pablo de la Vera: Instituto Nacional de Cultura

Nature, 2006, vol. 440, issue 7080, 76-79

Abstract: Pre-Columbian corn Recent decades have seen an explosion in knowledge of the early agriculture of lowland South America. Knowledge of the highlands is scarcer, but much to be desired, given that the Andes were home to the Incas and other pre-Columbian cultures. Perry et al. report on maize and other plant remains going back 4,000 years from Waynuna, an archaeological site in the highlands of southern Peru. This extends the record of maize back by at least a millennium in the southern Andes and provides direct evidence for the deliberate movement of plant foods by humans from the tropical forests to the highlands.

Date: 2006
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