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Domesticated Sunflower in Fifth Millennium B.P. Temporal Context: New Evidence from Middle Tennessee

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gary D. Crites
Gary D. Crites*
Affiliation:
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-3200
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Abstract

Carbonized seeds of domesticated sunflower (Helianthus annuus var. macrocarpus Ckll.) recovered from the Hayes site in middle Tennessee yielded an accelerator date of 4265 ± 60 B.P. This is the earliest date for domesticated sunflower, extending the known age of this eastern North American domesticate by 1,400 years.

Resumen

Resumen

Semillas carbonizadas de girasol domesticado (Helianthus annuus var. macrocarpus Ckll.) recuperadas en el sitio Hayes en el centro de Tennessee produjeron un fechado mediante acelerador de 4.265 ± 60 A.P. Esta es la fecha más temprana para girasol domesticado, extendiendo la edad conocida de este cultígeno del este de Norteamérica en 1.400 años.

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American Antiquity , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 146 - 148
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1993

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