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Preceramic Maize in the Central Andes: A Necessary Clarification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Duccio Bonavia  and
Alexander Grobman
Duccio Bonavia
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 2C6, and Department of Biology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Apartado 5045, Lima 1, Peru
Alexander Grobman
Affiliation:
Universidad Nacional Agraria, Lima, Peru, and Grobman Genotecnica S. A. (Gentec), Apartado 5161, Lima 1, Peru
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Abstract

In a series of articles Robert McK. Bird systematically has denied that preceramic maize has been discovered in the central Andes. The authors consider Bird's methodology to be unscientific and illustrate this by demonstrating the value of a significant body of archaeological evidence in support of preceramic maize.

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Robert Mck. Bird en una serie de artículos ha negado sistemáticamente los hallazgos de maíz precerámico en los Andes centrales. Los autores consideran que la metodología empleada por Bird no es científica y presentan la prueba de ello, para que los colegas puedan juzgar, señalando además las evidencias que demuestran fehacientemente la existencia de maíz en contexto precerámico.

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American Antiquity , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 836 - 840
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1989

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