[Aztlan] North American agriculture began in Illinois

[Robert Hall]

Estimados listeros,
     I have not seen the Smith and Yarnell article to which the WiredScience article refers, but the WiredScience article itself has to have mixed up some of the original during the reporting. The Riverton site is in the Wabash valley not the lower Illinois valley. Both are in Illinois, just different parts of Illinois, different excavation projects, different excavators, etc.

--- On Tue, 4/7/09, michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com> wrote:
From: michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri at mac.com>
Subject: [Aztlan] North American agriculture began in Illinois
To: aztlan at lists.famsi.org
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:38 AM


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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Mike Ruggeri

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