Culture, People, Nature: An Introduction to General AnthropologyWritten by a foremost spokesperson on cultural materialism, this book introduces students to the four fields of anthropology making all aspects of archaeology, linguistics, physical anthropology and cultural anthropology accessible and relevant to readers. |
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Page 180
... maize and the sequence of modifications that these forms underwent in the arid highlands of Mexico ( Macneish 1978 ) . Maize was domesticated from the grass called teosinte , which still grows wild in highland Mexico . Teosinte has been ...
... maize and the sequence of modifications that these forms underwent in the arid highlands of Mexico ( Macneish 1978 ) . Maize was domesticated from the grass called teosinte , which still grows wild in highland Mexico . Teosinte has been ...
Page 190
... maize agriculture probably lived in the lower Mississippi Valley . Maize , however , was not the ear- liest plant domesticate in what is now the United States . In the Ohio River Valley , for example , broad- spectrum foragers were ...
... maize agriculture probably lived in the lower Mississippi Valley . Maize , however , was not the ear- liest plant domesticate in what is now the United States . In the Ohio River Valley , for example , broad- spectrum foragers were ...
Page 198
... maize make this a virtual certainty . Broad - spectrum modes of production preceded the development of intensive maize agriculture in the Mexican highlands . After the megafauna extinctions , small animals , birds , and a wide variety ...
... maize make this a virtual certainty . Broad - spectrum modes of production preceded the development of intensive maize agriculture in the Mexican highlands . After the megafauna extinctions , small animals , birds , and a wide variety ...
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Introduction | 1 |
PART I | 7 |
Dominant and Recessive Genes | 14 |
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