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08/01/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Rewrite HISTORY? Scientists discover that potatoes were likely domesticated in North America almost 11,000 years ago

Researchers have discovered the earliest example of the use of potatoes in North America, and it dates back far longer than previously believed. The archaeologists found “well-preserved starch granules” in cracks in the rocks that were used to grind the potatoes up in what is being labeled the oldest evidence of potato cultivation in North […]

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