[Sca-cooks] crop timeline research

[Decker, Terry D.]

Here's a little more information about the squash find (from 1977);

http://www.he.net/~archaeol/9707/newsbriefs/squash.html

and a citation for an article in Science:

Smith BD. 1997. The initial domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas
10,000 years ago. Science 276: 932-934

One of the widely accept, but as yet unproven, hypotheses is that maize was
derived from teosinte.  Here is some information about the various arguments
and about one line of current research:

http://farma.qfb.umich.mx/maizetxt.htm

and the text in a more graphic mode:

http://farma.qfb.umich.mx/orimaize.htm

An interesting site on plant domestication in Mesoamerica:

http://www.athenapub.com/nwdom1.htm

Enjoy.

Bear

> Squash detective. In a similar way, research on ancient plant
> domestication <clipped>
> More if/when I find it.... Ru