Histories Of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches To The Prehistory, Linguistics, Biogeography, Domestication, And Evolution Of Maize

By John E. Staller

Among many themes that recur throughout this multifaceted examination of Zea mays L. is the contention that maize was not initially the important economic food sources that many have assumed. Domes...

Pre-Columbian Landscapes Of Creation And Origin

By John Staller, John E. Staller

Pre-Columbian Andean and Mesoamerican cultures have inspired a special fascination among historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, as well as the general public. As two of the earliest known and...

Pre-Columbian Landscapes Of Creation And Origin

By John Staller (Ed.), John E. Staller

Pre-Columbian Andean and Mesoamerican cultures have inspired a special fascination among historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, as well as the general public. As two of the earliest known and...

Mortuary Practices And Ritual Associations: Shamanic Elements In Prehistoric Funerary Contexts In South America

By Society For American Archaeology, John E. Staller, Elizabeth J. Currie, Meeting, Ill.) (64th : 1999 : Chicago

The Rise Of Religious Routinization : The Study Of Changes From Shaman To Priestly Elite / Augusto Oyuela-caycedo -- Shamanic Cosmology Embodied In Valdivia Vii-viii Mortuary Contexts From The Site...

Andean Foodways: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, And Contemporary Food And Culture

By John E. Staller, SpringerLink (Online Service)

1 online resource There is widespread acknowledgement among anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnobotanists, as well as researchers in related disciplines that specific foods and cuisines are linke...

Maize Cobs And Cultures: History Of Zea Mays L.

By John Staller, John E. Staller

"Our perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the most part out of...

Maize Cobs And Cultures: History Of Zea Mays L.

By John Staller, John E. Staller

"Our perceptions and conceptions regarding the roles and importance of maize to ancient economies is largely a product of scientific research on the plant itself, developed for the most part out of...

Maize Cobs And Cultures

By John Staller, John E. Staller

Histories Of Maize

By Robert H. Tykot, John E. Staller, Bruce F. Benz

Lightning In The Andes And Mesoamerica: Pre-Columbian, Colonial, And Contemporary Perspectives

By Brian Stross, John E. Staller

"Lightning has evoked a numinous response as well as powerful timeless references and symbols among ancient religions throughout the world. Thunder and lightning have also taken on various symbolic...