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The diffusion of maize to the southwestern United States and its impact

Edited by Linda S. Cordell, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, and approved October 30, 2009
December 15, 2009
106 (50) 21019-21026

Abstract

Our understanding of the initial period of agriculture in the southwestern United States has been transformed by recent discoveries that establish the presence of maize there by 2100 cal. B.C. (calibrated calendrical years before the Christian era) and document the processes by which it was integrated into local foraging economies. Here we review archaeological, paleoecological, linguistic, and genetic data to evaluate the hypothesis that Proto-Uto-Aztecan (PUA) farmers migrating from a homeland in Mesoamerica introduced maize agriculture to the region. We conclude that this hypothesis is untenable and that the available data indicate instead a Great Basin homeland for the PUA, the breakup of this speech community into northern and southern divisions ≈6900 cal. B.C. and the dispersal of maize agriculture from Mesoamerica to the US Southwest via group-to-group diffusion across a Southern Uto-Aztecan linguistic continuum.

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We are grateful for the logistical support provided by the Mexico-North Research Network and the University of Texas at San Antonio and for the research conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. We thank the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia for permission to conduct archaeological field research in Mexico. Funding for this research was provided by National Science Foundation Grants SBR-9708610, SBR-9809839, SBR-0219185, and SBR-0220292, the National Geographic Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Arizona Department of Transportation, and the City of Tucson.

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    1. early agriculture
    2. migration
    3. US Southwest
    4. Mesoamerica
    5. Uto-Aztecan

    Acknowledgments

    We are grateful for the logistical support provided by the Mexico-North Research Network and the University of Texas at San Antonio and for the research conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc. We thank the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia for permission to conduct archaeological field research in Mexico. Funding for this research was provided by National Science Foundation Grants SBR-9708610, SBR-9809839, SBR-0219185, and SBR-0220292, the National Geographic Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Arizona Department of Transportation, and the City of Tucson.

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    William L. Merrill
    Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37102, Washington, DC 20013-7012;
    Robert J. Hard1 [email protected]
    Department of Anthropology, One UTSA Circle, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249;
    Jonathan B. Mabry
    Historic Preservation Office, City of Tucson, P.O. Box 27210, Tucson, AZ 85726;
    Gayle J. Fritz
    Department of Anthropology, Campus Box 1114, One Brookings Drive, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130;
    Karen R. Adams
    Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, 23390 Road K, Cortez, CO 81321;
    John R. Roney
    Colinas Cultural Resource Consulting, 6100 North 4th Street, Private Mailbox #300, Albuquerque, NM 87107; and
    A. C. MacWilliams
    Department of Archaeology, 2500 University Drive Northwest, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

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    To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected]
    Author contributions: W.L.M., R.J.H., J.B.M., G.J.F., K.R.A., J.R.R., and A.C.M. designed research; W.L.M., R.J.H., J.B.M., G.J.F., K.R.A., J.R.R., and A.C.M. performed research; W.L.M., R.J.H., J.B.M., G.J.F., K.R.A., J.R.R., and A.C.M. analyzed data; and W.L.M. and R.J.H. wrote the paper.

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