EurekAlert! - ArchaeologyThe premier online source for science news since 1996. A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Sunflower debate ends in Mexico, researchers say- April 29, 2008 (Florida State University) Ancient farmers were growing sunflowers in Mexico more than 4,000 years before the Spaniards arrived, according to a team of researchers that includes Florida State University anthropologist Mary D. Pohl.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/fsu-sde042908.php Ancient sunflower fuels debate about agriculture in the Americas- April 29, 2008 (University of Cincinnati) Lentz and his fellow researchers have documented archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic and ethnohistoric data demonstrating that the sunflower had entered the repertoire of Mexican domesticates by 2600 B.C., that its cultivation was widespread in Mexico and extended as far south as El Salvador by the first millennium B.C., that it was well known to the Aztecs, and that it is still in use by traditional Mesoamerican cultures today.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uoc-asf042808.php |