BOTANICAL MUSEUM LEAFLETS 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS, OCTOBER 30, 1977 Vo-. 25, No. 8 
STUDY OF PRE-CERAMIC MAIZE FROM HUARMEY, 
NORTH CENTRAL COAST OF PERU 
ALEXANDER GROBMAN, Duccio BONAVIA AND 
Davip H. KELLEY WITH PAUL C. MANGELSDORF 
AND JULIAN CAMARA-HERNANDEZ! ” 
In 1960, Harvard University received a collection of maize 
samples from the Valley of Huarmey in the north central coast 
of Peru. These samples represented prehistoric specimens and 
were sent by David H. Kelley, who at the time was associated 
with West Texas State University, and by Duccio Bonavia, 
who then was an associate research worker at the Institute of 
Anthropological Investigations of Lima. 
Although these samples were studied almost immediately, 
due to a series of circumstances the publication of the report 
has been delayed. We believe today, however, that this infor- 
mation is valuable for the knowledge of prehistoric cultigens, 
and itis, therefore, being published with slight modifications in 
the original manuscript, as a result of recent fundamental 
changes which have come about in our knowledge of the ar- 
chaeology of the Peruvian Coast. With reference to the subject, 
‘Alexander Grobman, Associate Director General, Centro Internacional de Ag- 
ricultura Tropical, Cali, Colombia. 
Duccio Bonavia, Profesor Principal, Departamento de Biologia, Universidad 
Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru. 
David H. Kelley, Professor, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, 
Alberta, Canada. 
Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Fisher Professor of Natural History, Emeritus, Harvard 
University. 
Julian Camara-Hernandez, Professor Asociado, Facultad de Agronomia, Uni- 
versidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
?The section on description of maize remains was worked and written by Paul C. 
Mangelsdorf and Julian Camara-Hernandez. 
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