Автор: Mich?l Blake
Название: Maize for the Gods: Unearthing the 9,000-Year History of Corn
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2015
ISBN: 9780520286962
Язык: English
Формат: epub
Размер: 11,9 mb
Страниц: 280
Maize is the world’s most productive food and industrial crop, grown in more than 160 countries and on every continent except Antarctica. If by some catastrophe maize were to disappear from our food supply chain, vast numbers of people would starve and global economies would rapidly collapse. How did we come to be so dependent on this one plant?
Maize for the Gods brings together new research by archaeologists, archaeobotanists, plant geneticists, and a host of other specialists to explore the complex ways that this single plant and the peoples who domesticated it came to be inextricably entangled with one another over the past nine millennia.