{"id":9009,"date":"2018-01-26T17:37:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T00:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9009"},"modified":"2018-03-06T17:40:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T00:40:09","slug":"erect-knotweed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/01\/26\/erect-knotweed\/","title":{"rendered":"Erect Knotweed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/01\/hunting-for-the-ancient-lost-farms-of-north-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from are technica<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Hunting for the ancient lost farms of North America<\/h1>\n<h2>2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they\u2019re wild weeds. What happened?<\/h2>\n<section class=\"post-meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/author\/annalee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">ANNALEE NEWITZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"enlarge\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/domestic.jpg\" data-height=\"647\" data-width=\"700\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/domestic-640x592.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/domestic.jpg 2x\" alt=\"The top two rows are wild erect knotweed. The wild plant produces two kinds of achene, also called fruit: on the left is one form, with a thick, wrinkled skin; on the right is a fruit with smoother, thinner skin. The domesticated strain in the bottom row\u2014popped and unpopped\u2014resemble the smooth form of the wild fruit. You\u2019ll notice also that it\u2019s generally bigger. Mueller experimentally carbonized the wild fruit to see how its popped form would match the popped domesticate.\" width=\"640\" height=\"592\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adventurers and archaeologists have spent centuries searching for lost cities in the Americas. But over the past decade, they\u2019ve started finding something else: lost farms.<\/p>\n<p>Over 2,000 years ago in North America, indigenous people domesticated plants that are now part of our everyday diets, such as squashes and sunflowers. But they also bred crops that have since returned to the wild. These include erect knotweed (not to be confused with its invasive cousin, Asian knotweed), goosefoot, little barley, marsh elder, and maygrass. We haven\u2019t simply lost a few plant strains: an entire cuisine with its own kinds of flavors and baked goods has simply disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>By studying lost crops, archaeologists learn about everyday life in the ancient Woodland culture of the Americas, including how people ate plants that we call weeds today. But these plants also give us a window on social networks. Scientists can track the spread of cultivated seeds from one tiny settlement to the next in the vast region that would one day be known as the United States. This reveals which groups were connected culturally and how they formed alliances through food and farming.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2018\/01\/hunting-for-the-ancient-lost-farms-of-north-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at art technica<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from are technica Hunting for the ancient lost farms of North America 2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they\u2019re wild weeds. What happened? ANNALEE NEWITZ Adventurers and archaeologists have spent centuries searching for lost cities in the Americas. But over the past decade, they\u2019ve started finding something else: lost farms. Over 2,000 years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}