Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.94.961107104041.13002A-100000@rccsun> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:48:18 +0700 From: Richard Tinsley <mailto:tinsley@AIT.AC.TH> Subject: History of Agriculture To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
I have a student from Zambia who raised the following question for which we would greatly appreciate what informatiom may be available.Does anyone know how and when maize became the stable crop of Southern and Central Africa? It is certainly not native as it did not leave the Americas until after the Europeans explorations. But early contacts between the Americas and Africa were associated with the slave trade. When did maize arrive as a crop? What crops did it replace? Any information would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for your assistance.
Dick Tinsley
------------------------------------------- Dick Tinsley, Professor, Agricultural Systems Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) GPO 2754, Bangkok 10501, Thailand Phone: +66-2-524-5459 Fax: +66-2-524-6200 Email: mailto:tinsley@ait.ac.th