Tracking the origin and evolution of maize in the U.S. Southwest

After it was first domesticated from the wild teosinte grass in southern Mexico, maize, or corn, took both a high road and later on a coastal low road as it moved into what is now the U.S. Southwest.

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Via: Archaeology News from Past Horizons