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Beans of Wetherill Mesa1
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 June 2018
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
Footnotes
This is Contribution No. 18 of the Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project.
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