Ancient Crops of the Midwest

 

Gayle Fritz, professor of archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis, describes the Eastern Agricultural Complex, a group of crops grown thousands of years ago in what is now the eastern and midwestern U.S. These foods, which include a domesticated relative of quinoa no longer in existence, were grown before the arrival of corn and beans to North America.

 

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Image from Kindischer, 1987: via Gayle Fritz
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