July 4, 2011July 4, 2011 by Luigi Guarino

1400-year-old maize ear unearthed

First cassava, now maize. Joya de Cerén certainly deserves its reputation as the Mayan Pompeii. Think they’ll get ancient DNA out of it?

And if that maize link doesn’t work for you, and it didn’t for me, try one of these.

One Reply to “1400-year-old maize ear unearthed”

Jacob says:

July 4, 2011 at 9:06 pm

The first obvious question would be: what contemporary race does it resemble? Tuxpeño?

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