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The oldest definitive evidence for popping corn was discovered in New Mexico, United States, determined to be as early as 3600 BCE, and attributed to the Ancestral Puebloan peoples, who maintained trade networks with peoples in tropical Mexico.^[1]^[2]

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Between 2007 and 2011, evidence, as early as 4700 BCE, for popping corn, as macrofossil cobs, were discovered at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on the northern coast of Peru.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). and Harvard botany graduate student Claude Earle Smith, Junior (1922-1987),^[3]^[4] in a complex of rock shelters, dubbed the "Bat Cave", in Catron County,^[5] west-central New Mexico, and attributed to the Ancestral Puebloan peoples, who maintained trade networks with peoples in tropical Mexico.^[1]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13]

69.181.17.113 (talk) 17:20, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference usda was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ "History of Popcorn". www.popcorn.org. Retrieved January 16, 2024.
^ "C. Earle Smith Jr. papers". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ "Scientists Find 4000-Year-Old Corn". www.thecrimson.com | The Harvard Crimson. 1949-04-11. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ Dick, Herbert W. (1957). The Archaeology of Bat Cave, Catron County, New Mexico. Harvard University.
^ "Earliest popcorn". Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records Limited. Retrieved 9 October 2024. The first evidence of popcorn has been radiocarbon-dated dates to as old as 6,700 years (c. 4700 BCE), based on macrofossil cobs unearthed between 2007 and 2011 at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on the northern coast of Peru.
^ "Copies of Herbert W. Dick photographs of excavations at Bat Cave | Collection: NAA.PhotoLot.R86-67". sova.si.edu. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ Smith, Erin. "Friends celebrate completion of professor Dick's project". Pueblo Chieftain. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ "The Archaeological Evidence". Maize: Origin, Domestication, and its Role in the Development of Culture. Cambridge University Press: 118–220. 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ "History of Popcorn". www.popcorn.org. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ "The History of Popcorn". KingKorn Gourmet Popcorn. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ Hammons, Suzanne (28 July 2014). "Shootouts, Cattle Drives and Model T's: a History of the Villages of Catron County". Voice of the Southwest. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
^ Warner, Nancy (23 February 2012). "Kettle Corn & Popcorn from the Bat Cave". Nancy Warner. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

Already done —Sirdog (talk) 09:21, 17 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

graduate students

archaeology: Herbert W. Dick, of Albuquerque

botany: C. Earle Smith, of St. Petersburg, Florida

69.181.17.113 (talk) 17:56, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[usda-1] Cite error: The named reference usda was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[2] "History of Popcorn". www.popcorn.org. Retrieved January 16, 2024.

[si/CES-3] "C. Earle Smith Jr. papers". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

[thecrimson/Corn-4] "Scientists Find 4000-Year-Old Corn". www.thecrimson.com | The Harvard Crimson. 1949-04-11. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

[5] Dick, Herbert W. (1957). The Archaeology of Bat Cave, Catron County, New Mexico. Harvard University.

[Gwr/1stPop-6] "Earliest popcorn". Guinness World Records. Guinness World Records Limited. Retrieved 9 October 2024. The first evidence of popcorn has been radiocarbon-dated dates to as old as 6,700 years (c. 4700 BCE), based on macrofossil cobs unearthed between 2007 and 2011 at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on the northern coast of Peru.

[7] "Copies of Herbert W. Dick photographs of excavations at Bat Cave | Collection: NAA.PhotoLot.R86-67". sova.si.edu. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

[8] Smith, Erin. "Friends celebrate completion of professor Dick's project". Pueblo Chieftain. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

[9] "The Archaeological Evidence". Maize: Origin, Domestication, and its Role in the Development of Culture. Cambridge University Press: 118–220. 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

[10] "History of Popcorn". www.popcorn.org. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

[11] "The History of Popcorn". KingKorn Gourmet Popcorn. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

[votSW/catron-12] Hammons, Suzanne (28 July 2014). "Shootouts, Cattle Drives and Model T's: a History of the Villages of Catron County". Voice of the Southwest. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

[13] Warner, Nancy (23 February 2012). "Kettle Corn & Popcorn from the Bat Cave". Nancy Warner. Retrieved 9 October 2024.

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