FSTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tassel, Study Skills, Hunter-Gatherer
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Study skills: looking ahead to the final. Questions: what technologies and cultural associations did indigenous peoples of the americas attach to maize, under what circumstances did maize travel the world and what new cultural associations did it gain, how did industrial. Maize has been the agricultural staple in the americas for thousands of years, but indigenous recipes and cultural meanings have been displaced in the last century by the rise of commodity agricultural. Dense production in north america and china. Tassels on the top is the male organ and the seed case is the woman organ. Teosinte went through mutation and shrunk the crop. Took the dna from maize all over america and made a family tree and traced it back to the original place from where it comes. 8,000 years ago the mutation occurred and a human was present. Someone has to take the seed, pull it of the stalk and plant it.
