maizeless

Adjective

maizeless (not comparable)

1. Without maize.
   • The long-occupied mound at Huaca Prieta in the Chicama Valley, the best-known site of the maizeless, potteryless, early farmers, was abandoned before the culture of its habitants had improved greatly, and the best data for the ensuing period come from excavations in the Virú Valley, a little to the...1957, John Alden Mason, The Ancient Civilizations of Peru, page 38
   • Our panning gaze returns for a moment to the mouth of the Chicama Valley, where the sedentary people of Huaca Prieta lived on, potteryless and maizeless, raising their beans, their squash, and their cotton, and using their gourds as utensils.1963, Constance H. Frick Irwin, Fair gods and stone faces, page 281