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Ancient seeds reveal Andean crops

American and Old World horticulture began about the same time.

Archaeologists have found some of the oldest evidence of cultivated food plants in South America. The squash seeds, peanuts hulls, cotton bolls and quinoa-like seeds add to evidence that the dawn of agriculture in the New World was earlier and more protracted than previously thought.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on June 28, 2007 07:01 PM |

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