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Isotopic Evidence for Early Maize Cultivation in New York State
Abstract
Plants metabolize carbon dioxide photosynthetically either through a 3-carbon (Calvin) or 4-carbon pathway. Most plants are of the C-3 type; C-4 plants are primarily grasses adapted to hot, arid environments. Since C-4 plants have a higher 13 C/12 C ratio than C-3 plants, animals and humans with a significant C-4 plant food-intake will have higher 13 C/12 C ratios as well. Maize is a C-4 plant, hence maize cultivators living in predominantly C-3 plant environments should show significant isotopic differences from local hunter-gatherers in their skeletal remains; the importance of maize in their diet should also be measurable. The practicability of this method is demonstrated for New York State archaeological materials and wider implications are mentioned.
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- Vogel, J. C., & Van Der Merwe, N. J.
- Venue
- American Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1977-04
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 238-242
- ISSN
- 0002-7316 (ISSN-L)
- 2325-5064
- OpenAlex
- W1998408188
- Cited by
- 571
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 4.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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