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Evidence for Early Maize (Zea mays) from the Icehouse Bottom Site, Tennessee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jefferson Chapman  and
Gary D. Crites
Jefferson Chapman
Affiliation:
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-3200
Gary D. Crites
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0720
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Abstract

An accelerator date of 1775 ± 100 B.P. obtained from a maize (Zea mays) kernel from the Icehouse Bottom site in eastern Tennessee is the most convincing early date for maize in eastern North America.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , April 1987 , pp. 352 - 354
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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