Resources
Web resources
Ancestral Puebloan (Science of the American Southwest, National Park Service): https://www.nps.gov/subjects/swscience/ancestral-puebloan.htm
Cancha: Andean toasted chulpe corn (Marian Blazes, The Spruce Eats): https://www.thespruceeats.com/make-cancha-toasted-chulpe-corn-3029716
Cultural History of Southern Arizona (Arizona State Museum): https://statemuseum.arizona.edu/online-exhibit/culture-history-southern-arizona/paleo-indian-archaic
Dr. Joseph Goldberger & the War on Pellagra (National Institutes of Health): https://history.nih.gov/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8883184
Origins of agriculture (Archaeological Research in Oaxaca, Mexico, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts): https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/oaxaca-archaeology/origins-of-agriculture/
Small urpu (Jar) [Incan, from Peru] (The Met Museum): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/310520
Sofkey. (P. S. Wallace, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture): https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=SO003
Articles & books
Blake, M. 2015. Maize for the gods. University of California Press, Oakland, California.
Chen, A. 2017. 1,000 years ago, corn made this society big. Then, a changing climate destroyed it.The Salt, February 10, 2017. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/10/513963490/1-000-years-ago-corn-made-this-society-big-then-a-changing-climate-destroyed-the
Clark, L. 1998. The sacrificial ceremony.NOVA, November 24, 1998. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/sacrificial-ceremony/
Coclanis, P. A. 2023. The golden fuel.Aeon, 10 January, 2023. https://aeon.co/essays/what-explains-the-unstoppable-rise-of-maize-in-asia
Ekpa, O., N. Palacios-Rojas, G. Kruseman, V. Fogliano, and A. R. Linnemann. 2019. Sub-Saharan African maize-based foods-processing practices, challenges and opportunities.Food Reviews International 35: 609-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/87559129.2019.1588290
Hall, R. N. 2009, last updated 2022. Native American Foodways. Encyclopedia of Alabama. http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/Article/h-2150
James, I. 2020. 'Everything depends on the corn': As crops wither, the Hopi fear for their way of life.Arizona Central, November 30, 2020. https://www.azcentral.com/in-depth/news/local/arizona-environment/2020/11/30/hopi-tribe-withering-corn-crops-show-impact-climate-change/5931561002/
Orchardson, E. 2021. What is nixtamalization? CIMMYT, March 23, 2021. https://www.cimmyt.org/news/what-is-nixtamalization/
Peres, T. M. 2016. Malnourished: Cultural ignorance paved the way for pellagra.Gravy, Fall 2016.https://www.southernfoodways.org/malnourished-cultural-ignorance-paved-the-way-for-pellagra/
Turner, A. 2019. Gallery: making piki bread with the Native American Hopi tribe of Arizona.The London Economic, May 10, 2019. https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/travel/gallery-learning-to-make-piki-bread-with-the-native%E2%80%8B-american-hopi-tribe-of-arizona-132154/
World Health Organization. 2000. Pellagra and its prevention and control in major emergencies. WHO/NHD/00.10. PDF: https://www.unhcr.org/4cbeefad9.pdf
Selected scientific papers
Cherniwchan, J., and J. Moreno-Cruz. 2019. Maize and precolonial Africa.Journal of Development Economics 136: 137-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2018.10.008
Guzzon, F., L. W. Arandia Rios, G. M. Caviedes Cepeda, M. Céspedes Polo, A. Chavez Cabrera, J. Muriel Figueroa, A. E. Medina Hoyos, and T. W. Jara Calvo et al. 2021. Conservation and use of Latin American maize diversity: Pillar of nutrition security and cultural heritage of humanity.Agronomy 11: 172. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11010172
Revilla P., M. L. Alves, V. Andelković, C. Balconi, I. Dinis, P. Mendes-Moreira, R. Redaelli, J. I. Ruiz de Galarreta, M. C. Vaz Patto, S. Žilić, and R. A. Malvar. 2022. Traditional foods from maize (Zea maysL.) in Europe. Frontiers in Nutrition 8:683399. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.683399
Smith, B. D 2017. Tracing the initial diffusion of maize in North America. Pp. 332–348 in N. Boivin, ed. Human dispersal and species movement. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.
Tenaillon, M. I., and A. Charcosset. 2011. A European perspective on maize hisotry. Comptes Rendus Biologies 334: 221-228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crvi.2010.12.015
Wilson, A. S., E. L. Brown, C. Villa, N. Lynnerup, A. Healey, M. C. Ceruti, J. Reinhard, C. H. Previgliano, F. Arias Araoz, J. Gonazlez Diaz, and T. Taylor. 2013. Archaeological, radiological, and biological evidence offer insight into Inca child sacrifice.PNAS 110: 13322-13327. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1305117110
