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(Major Centers of New World Plant Domestication)
Early centers of Domestication: |
-Mesoamerica (maize, beans, squash, sweet potatoes)
-Central Andes (Centered on Peru) (potatoes, quinoa) -Lowland Tropics (Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru) (squashes, manioc) |
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(Major Centers of New World Plant Domestication)
Later areas of Cultivation Activity: |
-Mesoamerica
-Andes -N Souch America -E North America -Amazonia??? |
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Teosinte-
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Considered to be the direct ancestor of modern maize.
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Six Main Mazize Varieties:
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-Pod
-Dent -Flint -Pop -Flour -Sweet |
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Mutagens-
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Agents that cause mutations
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Tehuacan Valley, Mexico (highlands)
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-Coxcatlan Rock Shelter:
-Earliest occupations, people lived by hunting horses & deer with stone tipped spears, collecting wild plants, hunting jackrabbits. -50-60% of food came from game 10,000 B.C. -After 8000 B.C. people shifted more to wild plant foods -By 4,500 B.C., 90% of their diet was based on tropical grasses, cacti & maguey -after 2500 B.C. crops like beans, amaranth, gourds & very small corn were being grown, stored, ground with metates, and people were living in larger settlements. |