Early Cultivated Beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) from an Intermontane Peruvian Valley
- 5 January 1973
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 179 (4068), 76-77
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.179.4068.76
Abstract
Examples of fully domesticated common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and lima beans (Phaseolus lunatus) were recovered from deposits in Guitarrero Cave (PAn 14-102) in the Callejón de Huaylas, Ancash, Peru. Carbon-14 dates for stratum II, in which the earliest beans were found, range from 7,680 ± 280 to 10,000 ± 300 years before the present.Keywords
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