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Article: Native Americans planted farms with hardy "pioneer" crops 3800 years ago.
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- Asian News International
- Article date:
- April 9, 2009
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Byline: ANI
Washington, April 9 (ANI): New evidence of the first farming in eastern North America has emerged which suggests that 3800 years ago, Native Americans planted farms with hardy "pioneer" crops.
The ancient farm was found at a Riverton site along the Wabash River in present-day Illinois.
According to a report in National Geographic News, because the area appears to have been well stocked with wild food sources, the discovery may rewrite some beliefs about what led people to start farming on the North American continent.
Rather than turning to farming as a matter of survival, the so-called Riverton people may have been ...