Ancient quinoa seeds found in Ontario shed light on Indigenous trade – CBC
3,000-year-old seeds seemingly ‘processed for delivery’
Jan 16, 2019
A mass of quinoa seeds excavated from an archeological dig at a Brantford, Ont., construction site has been identified as being 3,000 years old, raising questions about the extent of trade among Indigenous peoples at the time.
The 140,000 seeds, which originate from the Kentucky-Tennessee area, seem as if they were “processed for delivery,” said Prof. Gary Crawford of department of anthropology at the University of Toronto.
The findings were published in the December 2018 issue of American Antiquity.
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