Summary: Scientists have uncovered evidence that the domestication of potatoes in the Andes influenced the evolution of human metabolism. A new study suggests ancient potato farming in the Andes may ...

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Indigenous people of the Andes were the first to domesticate the potato, making the starch-rich crop a dietary staple for this high-altitude population long before it spread to the rest of the world.

A groundbreaking DNA study from Argentina’s Uspallata Valley reveals that local hunter-gatherers adopted farming without large-scale migration. This challenges the long-held belief that agriculture in ...

Foreword / Peter Kaulicke -- Introduction / Tom D. Dillehay -- Research history, methods, and site types / Tom D. Dillehay, Kary Stackelbeck, Jack Rossen, and Greg Maggard -- Pleistocene and Holocene ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Anthropologists in northern Peru have found evidence of peanut, cotton and squash farming dating back 5,000 to 9,000 years, researchers said on Thursday, in a finding that helps ...

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Learn more about how some hunter-gatherers in the Southern Andes adopted maize farming. The Uspallata Valley in modern-day Argentina was an outlier in South America. The area at the southern tip of ...

Ancient DNA reveals how family bonds helped Andean communities survive climate crisis, disease, and the pressures of early ...

If you are looking for something to do with your Christmas tree after the new year, an Andes farm takes in people’s trees after the holidays to feed to its goats. Cyndi Wright, owner of Dirty Girl ...