TY - JOUR AU - Cecil H. Brown AU - Charles R. Clement AU - Patience Epps AU - Eike Luedeling AU - Søren Wichmann PY - 2014/05/22 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - The Paleobiolinguistics of Maize (Zea mays L.) JF - Ethnobiology Letters JA - EBL VL - 5 IS - 0 SE - Research Communications DO - 10.14237/ebl.5.2014.130 UR - https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/130 AB - Paleobiolinguistics is used to determine when and where maize (Zea mays) developed significance for different prehistoric groups of Native America. Dates and locations of proto-languages for which maize terms reconstruct generally accord with crop-origin and dispersal information from plant genetics and archaeobotany. Paleobiolinguistic and other lines of evidence indicate that human interest in maize was extensive millennia before the widespread development of a village‐farming way of life in the New World. ER -