How Native American Agriculture Spread Bees in Pre-Columbian North America For Immediate Release June 21, 2016 Margarita López-Uribe | 919.513.3967 Matt Shipman | 919.515.6386 Using genetic markers, researchers have for the first time shown h

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https://news.ncsu.edu/2016/06/squash-agriculture-bees-2016/

Perhaps the Jaradites did know what they were doing.

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I particularly found this parallel interesting:

"[R]esearchers found that P. pruinosa first moved from central Mexico into what is now the midwestern United States approximately 5,000 years ago, before expanding to the East Coast some time later."

https://news.ncsu.edu/2016/06/squash-agriculture-bees-2016/

"The Jaredite origin in the Old World probably dates to the third Millennium B.C., which due to the scarcity of historical material presents obstacles to the use of comparative literature or archaeology. "

http://eom.byu.edu/index.php/Jaredites

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Interesting article