有这么一种农作物,平时不会有太多人刻意把它当作主食,但是我们整个社会的运转,却又都几乎离不开它,那就是——玉米(Zea mays)。玛雅人最早驯化玉米玉米最早从普通的杂草变成食物,是在墨西哥的特瓦坎谷,奥尔梅克人和玛雅人培育出了大量不同的品种,但是野生玉米祖先大刍草,种子会在成熟的时候自由脱落,并且种子外包裹着非常坚硬的外壳,所以非常难以和“食物”联系在一起,但玉米有一个很重要的特点,那就是耐热、耐旱,于是不论环境多么恶劣,玛雅人最终还是成功了,在 There is such a kind of crop, usually not too many people deliberately regard it as staple food, but our entire society is functioning, but are almost inseparable from it, that is - corn (Zea mays). The earliest Maya corn domestication into the earliest from ordinary weeds into food in Mexico’s Tehuacan Valley, Olmec and Maya breeds a large number of different varieties, but the wild corn ancestor grass, seeds Will be free to fall off at a mature time, and the seeds are wrapped in a very hard shell, so it is very difficult to associate with “food”. However, there is a very important characteristic of corn that is heat resistance and drought tolerance. How bad the environment, the Maya eventually succeeded, at