The Native Americans: Prehistory and Ethnology of the North American Indians. Robert F. Spencer and Jesse D. Jennings, Eds. Harper and Row, New York, 1965. xiv + 539 pp. Illus. $10.90

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Science 24 December 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3704, p. 1709
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3704.1709-a

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The Native Americans: Prehistory and Ethnology of the North American Indians. Robert F. Spencer and Jesse D. Jennings, Eds. Harper and Row, New York, 1965. xiv + 539 pp. Illus. $10.90

Harold E. Driver ¹

¹ Department of Anthropology, Indiana University

I regret that I made an error in my book review of The NativeAmericans [Science 149, 1364 (1965)], where I citeMacNeish for a date of 6500 B.C. as the earliest find of maize.This is incorrect. The earliest wild maize dates from about80,000 B.C. and the earliest domesticated variety from about5000 B.C. The earliest date given in The Native Americans is,therefore, correct for the earliest domesticated maize.