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Origin of agriculture and plant domestication in West Mesoamerica

2010-08-01

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Recent paleoecological, archaeobotanical and genetic-molecular data are used to develop a hypothesis on the where, when, how and whom of plant domestication and the origin of agriculture in west Mesoamerica, and the formation of the maize-bean-squash multicrop milpa system and agro-food system which formed the base for development of ancient complex societies in this area. It is highly likely that about 10,000 bef...

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Literature Corpus work: 48485bc2-8693-5e0f-97cb-b4c580a9e5f8
DOI: 10.1007/s10722-009-9521-4

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