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| | Maize Article - Encyclopedia of Culture and Society of Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The first cereal domesticated by early Mesoamericans was evidently not maize, but Setaria geniculata, a relative of today’s grain millets. |
| | However, by 2,700 B. maize had been introduced from Michoacan to Puebla’s Tehuacan valley, the residents of the Coxcatlan caves in the southern fringes of the valley were utilizing a small-eared pop maize (6-9 kernels per cob), and had innovated the process for grinding maize grain with stone mortars and baking flat bread. |
| | Over a period of 2,000 years the residents of Coxcatlan and of Guila Náquitz, Oaxaca, gradually began to depend more on their cultivars and less on their hunting and foraging. |
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