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Pre-contact Agaves in the Southwestern United States: Rediscovering Lost Crops among the Hohokam and other Arizona Cultures

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Free with Gardens Admission-Registration Required Capacity is 60 Agaves have long been recognized for their importance in Mesoamerica, but their significance to Indigenous peoples north of the U.S.–Mexico border has only recently gained broader attention. Research shows that pre-Columbian farmers cultivated multiple domesticated agave varieties in Arizona as early as A.D. 600, with many surviving […]

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Tucson Botanical Gardens

2150 N Alvernon Way, Tucson, AZ 85712

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