|
|
|
|
BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
 Posted - 06/29/2007 : 06:40:43
|
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19499488/
Evidence that squash was being grown nearly 10,000 years ago, in what is now Peru, is reported in Friday's edition of the journal Science.
A team led by anthropologist Tom D. Dillehay of Vanderbilt University also uncovered remains of peanuts from 7,600 years ago and cotton dated to 5,500 years ago in the floors and hearths of sites in the Nanchoc Valley of northern Peru. |
|
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
|
|
HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 06/29/2007 : 14:36:56 [Permalink]
|
Great finds! I would not be surprised if accumulating evidence eventually indicates that settled life, and early civilization itself, very rapidly followed the end of the last Ice Age, and that this happened in many parts of the world.
The the question arises: Why not earlier, and why so suddenly? I love unsolved questions.
|
“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
Agricultural find from 8000BC in Peru
