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SUBMITTER: Splitstoser JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5023320 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Splitstoser Jeffrey C JC Dillehay Tom D TD Wouters Jan J Claro Ana A
Science advances 20160914 9
Archaeological research has identified the use of cultivated cotton (Gossypium barbadense) in the ancient Andes dating back to at least 7800 years ago. Because of unusual circumstances of preservation, 6000-year-old cotton fabrics from the Preceramic site of Huaca Prieta on the north coast of Peru retained traces of a blue pigment that was analyzed and positively identified as an indigoid dye (indigotin), making it the earliest known use of indigo in the world, derived most likely from Indigofer ...[more]