THIS WEEKIN Science

摘要

Routes of Chili Pepper DomesticationrnA wide variety of chili peppers were cultivated andrnused in cooking throughout the New World.rnPerry et al. (p. 986; see the Perspective byrnKnapp) identified a starch from chili peppers onrnancient pottery and stone tools that is diagnosticrnof groups of chili species. The starches were foundrnat various archaeological sites, including from aboutrn6500 years ago in Ecuador, and suggest multiplerndomesticated chili species by about 4000 years ago.