Table 2. Food plant remains recovered from Coxcatlan Cave.

		Z. mays					Cucurbita sp.		C. pepo		C. argyrosperma
Zone	Food plants total*	Total†	Cobs†	P. vulgaris‡	P. lunatus‡	L. siceraria rind fragments	Peduncle fragments	Rind fragments	Peduncles	Seeds	Peduncles and rind§	Seeds
I	2,522	1,608	1,380			2	1	103	2	1	9	2
II	5,895	2,737	2,273			5	3	298	2	1	34	24
III	7,230	4,879	4,115	3	1		1	64		1	20	134
IV	5,929	2,127	1,793	1		2		61			10	6
V	3,140	685	639	2			1	35			2	6
VI	6,787	2,497	2,302				2	72			10	23
VII	3,290	719	592			1		20			1	1
Ceramic zones total	34,793	15,254	13,094	6	1	10	8	653	4	3	86	190
VIII	1,572	24	15	1				7			1	3
IX	1,070	33	27					1			1
X	155	2	2
XI	2,685	33	25	1		2	1	10
XII	1,443	5	5
XIII	302	18	18			1
XIV	203									1		2
XV–XXVI	392											1
Preceramic zones total	7,822	115	92	2	0	3	1	18	0	1	2	6
Grand total	42,615	15,369	13,186	8	1	13	10	671	4	4	88	196

^*From ref. 21, table 26

^†From ref. 22, table 22

^‡From ref. 23, table 24

^§In addition to peduncles, 22 rind fragments exhibiting peduncle scars and blossom scars could be identified as C. argyrosperma on the basis of distinctive orange and black striped rind