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The South American agricultural frontier: The first direct evidence for maize consumption in San Luis, Argentina
Fecha
2018-10Registro en:
Heider, Guillermo; Lopez, María Laura; The South American agricultural frontier: The first direct evidence for maize consumption in San Luis, Argentina; Cambridge University Press; Antiquity; 92; 365; 10-2018; 1260-1273
0003-598X
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
Heider, Guillermo
Lopez, María Laura
Resumen
The spread of agriculture across the Andes is a topic of intense archaeological debate, particularly the processes driving the adoption of maize (Zea mays) by mobile hunter-gatherer groups of the Central Pampas of Argentina. This paper presents the first direct botanical evidence of maize from the Late Holocene hunter-gatherer sites of El Durazno and La Alborado in the San Luis province- A n area considered climatically unsuited to maize production. These data provide important new information on the production, processing and consumption of maize on a macro-regional scale, and the development of Central Pampas exchange systems.