Ancient Native Americans may have cultivated medicinal plants in Bears Ears, study finds
Ancient Native Americans may have cultivated medicinal plants in Bears Ears, study finds Brian Maffly © Provided by Salt Lake Tribune (The Natural History Museum of Utah) University of Utah anthropologist Brian Codding surveys an archaeological site in the Bears Ears region, documenting the presence of plants with cultural importance to Native Americans. U. researchers and their Indigenous colleagues found 31 plant species that grow at such sites, suggesting the Ancestral Puebloans, who occupied these lands centuries ago, carried these plants to these locations where they c...
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