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To: terycarl
American Indians were the greatest agricultural innovators in world history right up to modern times.

Recent studies attribute the domestication of Japonica Rice to the Aleut people ~ it was developed in Coastal Alaska and taken to Asia in later centuries.

But right off the bat you have two great starch sources ~ potatoes and corn ~ as well as BEANS and SQUASH.

There are thousands of varieties of each ~ and there are numerous other species that were domesticated by Indians thousands of years ago.

The whole planet has but 6 known centers of plant domestication ~ one is the East Central region of North America (centered on Mammoth Cave) and another consists of the highlands of Central America (Mesoamerica) with a wide variety of climate zones arrayed vertically.

70 posted on 04/27/2012 3:07:48 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
one is the East Central region of North America (centered on Mammoth Cave)

Went there in my youth. It was GREAT!!!

Never knew there was such a thing as blind fish and crawdads.

Beware of "Fat Man's Misery"

For those who never been there its a narrowing of one of the guided tours passages.

There was other so called passages which probably been dropped because of "Political Correctness"
79 posted on 04/28/2012 8:34:14 AM PDT by RedMonqey (Men who will not suffer to self govern, will suffer under the governance of lesser men.)
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