Spanish explorers may have brought the first peach pits to North America, but Indigenous communities helped the ubiquitous summer fruit really take root, according to a study led by a researcher at Penn State.
  • culpritus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    23 days ago

    This reminds me of the “Amazon rainforest was a curated garden” research. There is also evidence of trade in live Agave plants across a large section of the Americas.

  • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    22 days ago

    “When Europeans started to move through and into the interior of the continent in the mid- to late 1600s, they noted that there were way more varieties of peaches being grown by Indigenous peoples than there were in Europe,” he said

    Native Americans once again vindicated as having a better understanding of how to use the western hemisphere’s environment. Throw it on the pile along with crop rotation and back burning as “things Native Americans discovered but Europeans killed them and later had to rediscover, taking credit for it in the process.”