cially to consider here. Other kinds of evidence bearing on the 
problem are treated in detail elsewhere (8, 9). Suffice it to say 
here that contrary to a recently published drawing showing an 
Indian cultivating teosinte (//), there is presently no evidence 
of any kind, archaeological, ethnological, linguistic, ideog- 
raphic, pictorial or historical, to show that teosinte was ever 
cultivated as a crop by the American Indians. 
DISCOVERY OF THE FOSSIL POLLEN 
The discovery of the fossil pollen in question was the result 
of meticulous studies of palynological samples from cores 
taken at the Bellas Artes site in Mexico City in preparation for 
the construction of Mexico's first skyscraper, a 43-story build- 
ing. (Fig. 1.) These cores were obtained from Dr. Leonardo 
T 43rd. storey 
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Fig. 1. Fossil pollen, identified as corn pol- 
len, was discovered in core samples taken at 
depths of 69.3 - 70.5 meters in preparation for 
Mexico’s first skyscraper. An arrow indi- 
cates the level of volcanic clay in which the 
pollen occurred. After Zeevaert (28). De- 
pending on the criteria used, this level is var- iver 
iously dated at 25 to 80 thousand years ago. It 
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