The initial domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas 10,000 years ago

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5314, 1997, Pages 932-934

  Smith, Bruce D ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 14;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEXICO; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CUCURBITA PEPO;

EID: 0030963292     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5314.932     Document Type: Article

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21. 14C dates; F. Sánchez, director of the Laboratorio de Paleobotánica, INAH, and J. L. Alvarado for their kind hospitality and their consultation on the analysis; J. L. Alvarado, D. Decker-Walters, K. Flannery, G. Fritz, L. Kaplan, L. Newsom, F. Sanchez, P. J. Watson, and M. Zeder for comments on the manuscript; and Y. Sugiura and C. Castillo, without whose assistance this research would not have been possible.