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Reconstructing Utah’s Indigenous Maize Farming Niche (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maize (Zea mays) was one of the most widespread domesticated plants in the Americas before European colonization. Despite its widespread distribution, explaining how and why ancient maize farming spread into Utah remains a central research question in Southwest archaeology. To understand how ancient maize spread, we need a comprehensive suitability model...