ORIGIN OF CORN IN NATIVE AMERICA

CORN WAS FOUND AT PREHISTORIC VILLAGES IN MEXICO AT 6000 BC. IT WAS A MINIATURE VARIETY. ARCHAEOLOGISTS ALSO FOUND GOURDS AND PUMPKINS IN VILLAGES THERE DATING TO 7000 BC. WHEN I WORKED IN MEXICO THEY HAD MANY DIFFERENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SPECIALISTS WHO WERE ABLE TI IDENTIFY PREHISTORIC SEEDS AND PLANT TYPES THAT THE NATIVES ATE THROUGHOUT ABOUT 9000 YEARS! THESE REMAINS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN CAVES IN THE VALLEY OF MEXICO. SOME HAVE BEEN FOUND IN SMALL VESSELS EXCAVATED IN SITES. IT IS INTERESTING THAT THE CITY OF TEOTIHUACAN HAD MANY IRRIGATION WATERWAYS PLANNED THROUGHOUT THE CITY. THEIR FARMERS LIVED IN SMALL CAMPS OUTSIDE OF THE MAIN CITY AND WORKED THE FIELDS MAKING SURE THEY HAD ADEQUATE VEGETABLES, BEANS, AND OTHER NATIVE FOODS TO BRING TO THEIR MARKETS.

SOME OF THE OTHER TYPES OF CRAFTSMEN WERE OBSIDIAN CARVERS FOR SCULPTURES AND VARIOUS TOOLS, LEATHER WORKERS, SEAMSTRESSES, STONE MASONS.