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Jar with modeled snake, Casa Grande 1200-1400 AD
Maize
Maize is a popular food, and it is well known that it was a gift to the rest of the world from the Native Americans. What is not commonly known is that corn is the result of one of the most amazing plant breeding accomplishments in the history of the world. Maize is the result of many years of cultivation and domestication of a wild grass known as teosinte. Arturo Warman, a maize historian, has called maize "a thoroughly cultural artifact, in that it is truly a human invention, a species that does not exist naturally in the wild and can only survive if sown and protected by humans." It is also believed that the domestication of maize is directly related to the rise of civilization in Mesoamerica. Since the days when it was given to Columbus, maize has affected everything from land use, to food production, to cuisine, and to population growth around the world.
Source: Native Americans in Science, Dr. David R. Burgess - Biologist
Native American History Of Corn
The Natives of the Americas who began the cultivation of Maize with such care, that produced healthy, and nutritious food would now turn in their graves to see what modern men have done with it. The PBS whole documentary on King Korn is a must see, your health depends on it.
King Korn
“KING CORN tells the story of two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. As the film unfolds, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-ubiquitous grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, see what they question about how we eat—and how we farm.”
PBS King Korn
Top left image of Aztec Corn Box
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