Re: Notes on Native Farming

Pete Shemitz (pshemitz@ukanvm.bitnet)
Fri, 15 Nov 1991 11:07:19 CST

thanks to lyn dearborn for that interesting post.

i felt that i should add that the three sisters maize-squash-beans complex
was actually a late comer that ethnobotanists think diffused outwards from the
southwest @1,000 AD.

the agriculture it displaced was of sunflower, ragweed, chenopodium cultivation