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WHILE accepting the American origin of maize, the question of its existence in Europe before the days of Columbus has been revived by recent archæological finds in Yoruba territory. Goodwin (ref. 1, 13) states that pots decorated by rolling a maize cob over the wet clay have recently been found at Ife. “As vast numbers of specimens were collected from a pavement of potsherds that provided a clear-cut dating line for certain sites, it became important to note whether or not the maize cob decoration occurred. It did, and it is abundantly clear that this particular paving is subsequent to the introduction of maize.”
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JEFFREYS, M. Pre-Columbian Maize in Africa. Nature 172, 965–966 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/172965a0
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