Fire Farming, Not Corn, Could be Secret to Ancient Southwest Life
Thu, 11/30/2017 - 2:15pm
by Seth Augenstein - Senior Science Writer
The “eureka moment†emerged from the ashes, as Alan Sullivan, a University of Cincinnati archaeologist recounts.
For years the survival of the ancient peoples of the Southwest, the ancestors of the modern Pueblo, were believed to have lived primarily off of corn crops. But in many parts of the region, there was little to no evidence of actual corn growth – and the soil in much of the region appeared to be too poor for cultivating maize.
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