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Science 16 February 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5814, p. 909
DOI: 10.1126/science.315.5814.909a
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Figure 1 A wide variety of chili peppers were cultivated and used in cooking throughout the New World. Perry et al. (p. 986; see the Perspective by Knapp) identified a starch from chili peppers on ancient pottery and stone tools that is diagnostic of groups of chili species. The starches were found at various archaeological sites, including from about 6500 years ago in Ecuador, and suggest multiple domesticated chili species by about 4000 years ago.

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