Man Across the Sea: Problems of Pre-Columbian ContactsContains the major portion of papers presented at a symposium held during the national meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, at Santa Fe, N.M. in May 1968. |
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... China , re- marked : “ All these early Chinese reports on maize state consistently that maize came to them from Tibet and the western parts of China . They therefore call it , among other names , Hsi fan mai , Tibetan wheat . ' Of ...
... China , re- marked : “ All these early Chinese reports on maize state consistently that maize came to them from Tibet and the western parts of China . They therefore call it , among other names , Hsi fan mai , Tibetan wheat . ' Of ...
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... China as early as 1575 , which was the year in which Mendoza's informants had visited China . " Boxer ( 1953 : 277 ) , commenting on 20.25 million fanegas , or bushels of maize paid in taxes in 1575 , remarked : “ This seems to be ...
... China as early as 1575 , which was the year in which Mendoza's informants had visited China . " Boxer ( 1953 : 277 ) , commenting on 20.25 million fanegas , or bushels of maize paid in taxes in 1575 , remarked : “ This seems to be ...
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... Chinese context , then there is a written record of maize cultivation in Indo - China about A.D. 1250 , the date to which Firth and Rockhill assign the work of Chau Ju - kua . Three sixteenth - century Chinese references are noted by ...
... Chinese context , then there is a written record of maize cultivation in Indo - China about A.D. 1250 , the date to which Firth and Rockhill assign the work of Chau Ju - kua . Three sixteenth - century Chinese references are noted by ...
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SECTION I | 3 |
Evidence and Process | 60 |
Style and Culture Contact | 66 |
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