EurekAlert! - Archaeology
June 20, 2016
How squash agriculture spread bees in pre-Columbian North America
(North Carolina State University) Using genetic markers, researchers have for the first time shown how cultivating a specific crop led to the expansion of a pollinator species. In this case, the researchers found that the spread of a bee species in pre-Columbian Central and North America was tied to the spread of squash agriculture.