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A recent identification of ram6n in Miranda's sixteenth-century relaci6n of Alta Verapaz more likely de- scribes achiote. There is very little archaeological evidence to suggest that ram6n was more than a famine food in ancient Maya times.
In their recent article reaffirming the importance of maize as the caloric base of ancient Maya subsistence, Reina and Hill (1980:76) seem to have overemphasized the possible contribution of ramon by misidentifying it in Miranda's sixteenth-century relacion of the Alta Verapaz in Guatemala (Miranda 1953-1954):
Charles H. Miksicek, Kathryn J. Elsesser, Ingrid A. Wuebber, Karen Olsen Bruhns, Norman Hammond
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