Maize / meɪz / (Zea mays), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about …

Real archaeologists mostly find small, almost valueless objects—and won’t know for years, or decades, what mystery they are resolving. Consider this ancient ear of maize, which Walter …

Nov 30, 2023 · Maize is one of the world’s most important crops, but its origins have long bedeviled scientists. It took more than a century for scientists to settle on the idea that it was …

Ancient Origins articles related to maize in the sections of history, archaeology, human origins, unexplained, artifacts, ancient places and myths and legends.

Nov 21, 2016 · On the basis of shotgun sequencing and genomic comparisons to Balsas teosinte and modern maize, we show herein that the earliest maize from San Marcos cave was a …

Dec 14, 2018 · In 2016, two independent research groups analyzed the DNA of 5,000-year-old maize cobs from a cave in Mexico, and found that the ancient corn was still in the midst of the …

Jan 20, 2025 · We reconstructed the root phenotypes of maize and teosinte, as well as the environments of the Tehuacan Valley over the last 18,000 years using a combination of …

Dec 4, 2024 · Ancient maize genomes reveal recurrent northward movements from its domestication center, culminating in two dispersals of US Southwest maize into the Ozark …

Maize (Zea mays L.) is the New World's preeminent grain crop, was widely grown at the time of the European contact in both hemispheres, and was a staple food of many prehistoric …

Dec 5, 2016 · Using genomic data of a 5,310-year-old maize cob, we have obtained a genomic snapshot of the past, finding Tehuacan162 represents an ancient form of maize that is closely …