Indeed, the time frames really underscore a lot for me: “ Maize was domesticated from teosinte, a wild grass growing in the lower reaches of the Balsas River V

Indeed, the time frames really underscore a lot for me: “ Maize was domesticated from teosinte, a wild grass growing in the lower reaches of the Balsas River Valley of Central Mexico, around 9,000 years ago. There is evidence maize was first cultivated in the Maya lowlands around 6,500 years ago, at about the same time that it appears along the Pacific coast of Mexico. But there is no evidence that maize was a staple grain at that time.”