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Study finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science indicates Indigenous peoples in what is now B.C. had been cultivating the beaked hazelnut for thousands of years, which researchers say challenges the notion that pre-colonial Indigenous people in northwestern B.C. were only hunter-gatherers.

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