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Science 5 March 1971:
Vol. 171. no. 3974, pp. 897 - 898
DOI: 10.1126/science.171.3974.897
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Maize from an Adena Mound in Athens County, Ohio

James L. Murphy 1

1 Department of Geology, Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106

The discovery of a carbonized ear of maize in an Adena burial mound at Athens, Athens County, Ohio, is the first indisputable evidence of Adena maize horticulture. The mound contained typical middle Adena features, including a bark prepared burial, and has yielded charcoal radiocarbon dated at 280 B.C. ± 140 years.

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