Smithsonian Institution. “New Research Reveals the Earliest Evidence for Corn in the New World.” March 23, 2009. https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/new-research-reveals-earliest-evidence-corn-new-world.
Supports Central Balsas maize domestication by about 8,700 years ago.
Smithsonian Institution, “New Research Reveals the Earliest Evidence for Corn in the New World,” March 23, 2009, https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/new-research-reveals-earliest-evidence-corn-new-world.
Smithsonian Institution, “New Research Reveals the Earliest Evidence for Corn in the New World,” March 23, 2009, https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/new-research-reveals-earliest-evidence-corn-new-world.
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Smithsonian Institution, “Earliest Evidence for Corn.”
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