ABSTRACT
Introduction 648 Glottochronology 649 Methodology 650 Theoretical Considerations Concerning Terms for Maize
in Ancestral Languages 654 Chronology of Maize in the Americas 655 Maize Chronology and Glottochronological Dates 656 Adjusting Glottochronology 661 Conclusion 662
Ancestral language Language of the past from which modern languages have developed (e.g., French, Spanish, and Italian developed from Latin, their common ancestral language); also referred to as a parent language or proto-language.
