Article Title

American Corn Depicted in Ancient India

Authors

Keywords

University of Oregon, Anne Z. Parker, Carl L. Johnannessen, Mysore area, Economic Botany

Abstract

A recent article in Economic Botany contains abundant data showing the presence of American maize on the sculptured fronts of temples in southern India several centuries before the time of Columbus. Numerous accurate representations of corn ears on three temples near Mysore are pictured and analyzed by Carl L. Johannessen and Anne Z. Parker, geographers at the University of Oregon.

Recommended Citation

(1989) "American Corn Depicted in Ancient India," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 9: No. 3, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol9/iss3/4