MacNeish, Richard Stockton

MacNeish, Richard Stockton
▪ 2002
“Scotty” 
      American agricultural archaeologist (b. April 29, 1918, New York, N.Y.—d. Jan. 16, Belize City, Belize), conducted fieldwork investigating the origins of corn (maize) and rice under the auspices of the Andover (Mass.) Foundation for Archaeologic Research and stirred controversy with some of his interpretations derived from his work. His most notable discovery came during the 1960s when he found tiny ears of corn in a cave in the Tehuacán Valley in Mexico; these forebears of modern corn at first were believed to be as much as 7,000 years old but later were dated at 5,500 years old. During the 1990s MacNeish found remnants of cultivated rice paddies that were 9,000 years old along the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) basin. MacNeish's 1992 discovery in New Mexico of human fingerprints on human-made hearths that were believed as old as 38,000 years led him to discredit a widely held theory that humans first set foot in the Americas about 12,000 years ago by crossing the Bering land bridge from Asia, a hypothesis that raised the hackles of proponents of that theory. MacNeish was killed when he crashed after losing control of his car while driving between two archaeological sites.

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