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Anonymous. Codex Perez: an ancient Mayan hieroglyphic book; a photographic facsimile reproduced from the original in the Bibliotheque nationale, Paris, by Theodore A. Willard. Glendale, California: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1933.
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Beadle GW. “The Mystery of Maize.” Field Museum Bulletin, November 1972.
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Coe MD. Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (4th ed.). New York: Thames and Hudson, 1994.
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Coe SD. America’s First Cuisines. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
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Duran D. Book of the Gods and Rites and The Ancient Calendar. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
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Fussel B. The Story of Corn. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
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Gerson MJ. People of corn: a Mayan story. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.
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Harlan JR. The Living Fields: Our Agricultural Heritage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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Heiser CB, Jr. Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1990.
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Heiser CB, Jr. Of Plants and People. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1985.
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Johannessen S, Hastorf CA. Corn and culture in the Prehistoric New World. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994.
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Kavasch EB. Enduring Harvests: Native American Foods and Festivals for Every Season. Old Saybrook, Connecticut: Globe Pequot Press, 1995.
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Lehner E, Lehner L. Folklore and Odysseys of Food and Medicinal Plants. London: Harrap, 1973.
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Levetin E, McMahon K. Plants and Society. Boston: WCB/McGraw-Hill, 1999.
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Nabhan GP. Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation. San Francisco, CA: North Point Press, 1989.
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Reents-Budet D. Painting the Maya Universe: Royal Ceramics of the Classic Period. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1994.
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de Sahagun B. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain, Book 10 .Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961.
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Sandstrom AR. Corn is our Blood: Culture and Ethnic Identity in a Contemporary Aztec Indian Village. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
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Sandstrom AR, Cordell LA. Chilies to Chocolate: Food the Americas Gave the World. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1992. See especially Galinat WC. “Maize: Gift from America’s First Peoples.” pp. 47-61.
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Simpson BB, Connor Ogorzaly M. Economic Botany: Plants in Our World (3rd ed). Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001. |
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Smith AF. Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press, 1999. |
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Sokolov R. Why We Eat What We Eat: How the Encounter Between the New World and the Old Changed the Way Everyone on the Planet Eats. New York: Summit Books, 1991. |
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Thompson JE. Mexico before Cortez; An Account of the Daily Life, Religion, and Ritual of the Aztecs and Kindred Peoples. New York and London: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1933. |
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Weatherwax P. The Story of the Maize Plant. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1923. |
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Benz BF, ed. The Professor Hugh H. Iltis Commemorative Issue: An Avid Investigator and Searcher for the Origin of Corn. Maydica 1990. 35(2):78-186.
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Benz BF. “On the origin, evolution, and dispersal of maize.” In Black M , ed. Pacific Latin American in Prehistory, the Evolution of Archaic and Formative Cultures. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press, 1999, pp25-38.
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Bird RM. “Maize Evolution from 500 BC to the Present.” Biotropica, 1980, 12:30-41.
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Bush MB, Piperno DR, Colinvaux PA. “A 6,000 year history of Amazonian maize cultivation.” Nature, 340: 303-305.
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Cowan WC, Watson PJ, eds. The Origins of Agriculture: An International Perspective. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
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Doebley J, Stec A. “Inheritance of the Morphological Differences Between Maize and Teosinte: Comparison of Results for Two F2 Populations.” Genetics, 1993, 134: 559-570.
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Doebley J, Stec A. “Genetic Analysis of the Morphological Differences Between Maize and Teosinte.” Genetics, 1991, 129:285-295.
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Eubanks M. Corn in Clay: Maize Paleoethnobotany in Pre-Columbian Art. University of Florida Press, 1999. |
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Galinat WC “Evolution of Corn.” Advances in Agronomy , 1992, 47: 203-231. |
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Galinat WC. “The Origin of Corn.” Agronomy, 1988, 18:1-31. |
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Goodman MM. "Maize." In Smartt J, Simmonds NW, eds., Evolution of Crop Plants. Essex, UK: Longman Scientific & Technical, 1995, pp. 192-202. |
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Iltis HH. “Homeotic Sexual Translocations and the Origin of Maize (Zea mays, Poaceae): A New Look at an Old Problem.” Economic Botany, 2000, 54: 7-42. |
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Lathrap DW. Ancient Ecuador: Culture, Clay and Creativity 3000-300 BC. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History Press, 1975. |
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Roosevelt AC. Parmana: Prehistoric Maize and Manioc Subsistence Along the Amazon and Orinoco. New York: Academic Press, 1980. |
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Barriero J. Indian Corn of the Americas–Gift to the World. Ithaca, NY: American Indian Program, Cornell University.
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Parker AC. Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants. New York State Museum Bulletin 144. Albany, NY: University of the State of New York, 1910.
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Steece HM. “Corn Culture Among the Indians of the Southwest.” The Indian School Journal. U.S. Indian Training School, Chilocco, Oklahoma. 1922, 22(3): 8-19; reprint in Natural History 21(4):414-424.
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Wilson, GL. Buffalo Bird Woman’s Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians. St Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 198
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Books for Youth
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Livo NJ, ed. Moon Cakes to Maize: Delicious World Folktales. Fulcrum Publishing, 1999.
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McNickle D. Runner in the Sun: A Story of Indian Maize. University of New Mexico Press, 1987.
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Stevens JR, Arnold J. Carlos and the Cornfield. Northland Publications, 1999.
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Stevens JR, Arnold J. Carlos y La Milpa de Maíz, Northland Publications, 1999.
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