Post by blackcrowheart on Feb 6, 2006 11:03:48 GMT -5
Corn a link to ancient Indian trading
Corn a link to ancient Indian trading
www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=4458035
ALBUQUERQUE A field of red, yellow, blue, pink and white in northwest
New Mexico could tell archaeologists how American Indians traded with
each other thousands of years ago.
The field in Farmington wasn't full of flowers, but 155 types of corn
collected from Southwestern tribes over the past 50 years.
New Mexico State University is helping grow, study and catalog that
corn so archaeologists can compare it with corn found in the
prehistoric record.
The corn types were gathered by the Department of Agriculture but
hadn't been grown or studied until the project started in 2004.
The 155 types of corn in the study were harvested in 2005, and the
organizations have just finished characterizing the differences in
size, shape and color, among other things.
Corn a link to ancient Indian trading
www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?S=4458035
ALBUQUERQUE A field of red, yellow, blue, pink and white in northwest
New Mexico could tell archaeologists how American Indians traded with
each other thousands of years ago.
The field in Farmington wasn't full of flowers, but 155 types of corn
collected from Southwestern tribes over the past 50 years.
New Mexico State University is helping grow, study and catalog that
corn so archaeologists can compare it with corn found in the
prehistoric record.
The corn types were gathered by the Department of Agriculture but
hadn't been grown or studied until the project started in 2004.
The 155 types of corn in the study were harvested in 2005, and the
organizations have just finished characterizing the differences in
size, shape and color, among other things.