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Pottery and Cucurbita Species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas W. Whitaker  and
Hugh C. Cutler
Thomas W. Whitaker
Affiliation:
U.S. Department of Agriculture, La Jolla, California
Hugh C. Cutler
Affiliation:
Missouri botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri
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Abstract

The identification of pottery artifacts modeled after Cucurbita species from the Mochica culture of Peru is discussed. The evidence strongly suggests these artifacts were modeled after cultivars of C. moschata, not C. pepo as reported from time to time in botanical literature.

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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 225 - 226
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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