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Gallinazo Maize from the Chicama Valley, Peru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert McK. Bird
Affiliation:
Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110
Junius B. Bird
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024

Abstract

A large sample of Gallinazo cobs from Huaca Prieta is classified using a set of five variables. Some types of Gallinazo maize recovered there seem to have been new to the Peruvian North Coast; some types of the preceding Salinar phase are not known from this site. Further changes occur in the Chicama-Viru area when Moche influence appears. In several ways Gallinazo maize seems more related to maize occurring today further north and east than to modern highland or coastal maize to the southeast.

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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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