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u/pipocaQuemada · 6 pointsr/AskHistorians

America's First Cuisines was my source in favor of the wild maize theory. It was published in 1991, and says "At the moment, some people think that the ancestor of maize was maize. This hypothesis has been with us a long time, although for it while it was submerged under a sea of other scenarios, and it seems to be surfacing again.", and then mentions 80,000 year old maize pollen being found under the Belles Artes concert hall in Mexico City, and teosinte not being good eats.

Doing a bit of googling, I found this paper from 2001, which suggests that the debate has been more or less settled via genetic evidence in favor of an origin from teosinte.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/AskHistorians

The only book I know of that deals with this is America's First Cuisines, by Sophie Coe. Do you know of any other books on the subject?

u/fernly · 1 pointr/AskHistorians

Holy crap, I shoulda searched Amazon first! America's First Cuisines

(Edit: this book sounds very readable from the reviews. I'm a bit regretful that it covers only "the Aztecs, the Maya, and the Inca". I'm sure the cuisine(s) of e.g. the Pacific Coast, the Great Lakes, etc, were quite different -- the nice post by Reedstilt gives an idea.)