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Beans of Wetherill Mesa1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Lawrence Kaplan
Lawrence Kaplan*
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University Of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts
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Abstract

Analysis of bean seeds taken from various Wetherill Mesa prehistoric Indian sites shows that all belong to the Phaseolus vulgaris (common bean) species. Of the five varieties of this species, one seems to have predominated — an “all-purpose” bean used as a string bean and as a dry, mature bean. This variety is also the most commonly occurring bean in the pre-Columbian Southwest.

Type
3 The Natural Sciences
Information
Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology , Volume 19: Contributions of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project , October 1965 , pp. 153 - 155
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1965 

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Footnotes

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This is Contribution No. 18 of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project.

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