America's Most Amazing, Amusing Vegetable: The Bottle Gourd: A Resource Guide to its history, Native American impact, its part in music, dance, ... story, plus some unbelievable facts & figures - Softcover

Thompson, Mark S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0578285894 ISBN 13: 9780578285894

Verlag: Gourdworks, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Did you know that Darwin found gourds in the Galapagos? Did you know King Louis XV ordered botanical drawings of gourds to be entered into the Royal Library? Did you know that a gourd phone from 800 AD was found in Peru? The story about the bottle gourd is truly amazing and amusing. This fascinating book provides history on the world's oldest cultivated plant, the bottle gourd, which can be traced back to 8,000 BC. Preserved gourd remains have been found in many ancient sites in the Americas. Scientists have proven that gourds floated across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas thousands of years ago. The wild bottle gourd was cultivated and became a staple in Native American culture and was part of the family of food staples called "The Three Sisters," i.e. squash (gourds too), pumpkins, and maize.

Join others like the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (Cortez CO), Martin Espino from Ancestral Sound, Florida Public Archaeology Network, and the Archaeological Research Institute in finding it "a very welcome addition to our little library." The American Gourd Society chapters around the country have also welcomed copies into their collections.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Gourdworks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0578285894
• ISBN 13: 9780578285894
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 149
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