[Aztlan] North American agriculture began in Illinois

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

North American agriculture (north of the Rio Grande) can be traced  
back 3,800 years to the Illinois River Valley. Archaeologists have  
located the first agricultural complex there. In a report published in  
the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, molecular scale  
imaging of botanical remains from Riverton, Illinois shows that five  
crops were harvested 3800 years ago at that site; bottle gourds,  
sunflowers, marshelders and two varieties of chenopods. Two other  
plants that may have been cultivated are Cucurbita pepo squash and  
little barley. 200 years previous, there was no sign of this kind of  
cultivation.

Wired Science has the story here;
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/complexagro.html

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