Dr. Scott Raymond

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  That means that the people in the villages of the tropical region transported them across the mountains to grow them, Raymond said.Results from the Canadian-U.S.-Venezuelan project yielded evidence that peppers were farmed in the region more than 1,000 years before the plants were cultivated in Peru or Mexico, [Scott Raymond, a University of Calgary archaeologist] said. ...
  
  US: Study shows first peck of peppers picked 6,100 years agoFresh Plaza Netherlands February 19, 2007
  
  Here's a hot, new discovery: archaeologists have traced what they believe is evidence of the first home-grown chili peppers, used in South America 6,100 years ago.And it was people in tropical, lowland areas of what is now western Ecuador who first spiced up their cuisine, not those from higher, drier Mexico and Peru as was previously assumed, said Scott Raymond, a University of Calgary archaeologist. ...
  
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  Scott Raymond, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary, Canada, said the date of the necklace is "remarkably early for that region to have something of that order."
  
  He said he had not previously seen any substantial evidence from that period of the kind of ceremonialism that developed later.
  
  The oldest previously known worked gold was found in highland Peru and dated to about 3,500 years ago, said Raymond, who was not part of the research team.

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  Scott Raymond, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary, Canada, said the date of the necklace is ''remarkably early for that region to have something of that order.''
  
  He said he had not previously seen any substantial evidence from that period of the kind of ceremonialism that developed later.
  
  The oldest previously known worked gold was found in highland Peru and dated to about 3,500 years ago, said Raymond, who was not part of the research team.

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  Scott Raymond, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary, Canada, said the date of the necklace is "remarkably early for that region to have something of that order."
  
  He said he had not previously seen any substantial evidence from that period of the kind of ceremonialism that developed later.
  
  The oldest previously known worked gold was found in highland Peru and dated to about 3,500 years ago, said Raymond, who was not part of the research team.

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  Scott Raymond, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary, Canada, said the date of the necklace is "remarkably early for that region to have something of that order."
  
  He said he had not previously seen any substantial evidence from that period of the kind of ceremonialism that developed later.
  
  The oldest previously known worked gold was found in highland Peru and dated to about 3,500 years ago, said Raymond, who was not part of the research team.
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  Scott Raymond, an archaeologist at the University of Calgary, Canada, said the date of the necklace is "remarkably early for that region to have something of that order."
  
  He said he had not previously seen any substantial evidence from that period of the kind of ceremonialism that developed later.
  
  The oldest previously known worked gold was found in highland Peru and dated to about 3,500 years ago, said Raymond, who was not part of the research team.

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  These Ecuadorian sites represent the earliest known village sites in the Americas, and were excavated by a team led by Dr Scott Raymond of the University of Calgary.
  
  "Until quite recently it`s been assumed that the ancestors of the great highland civilizations, like the Inca and the Aztecs, were responsible for most of the cultural and agricultural advances of the region," says Raymond.
  
  "We now have evidence that the indigenous people from tropical, lowland areas deserve credit for the domestication of the chilli pepper," he added.
  
  Early Latin American peoples would have found chilli peppers, which are rich in vitamin C, to be an excellent complement to fish and starchier foods like maize, beans, yams and corn.
  
  "It`s also an excellent disguiser.If something`s not tasting quite right, you can always throw a few chillies in the pot," said Raymond.

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  And it was people in tropical, lowland areas of what is now western Ecuador who first spiced up their cuisine, not those from higher, drier Mexico and Peru as was previously assumed, said Scott Raymond, a University of Calgary archaeologist.
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  That means that the people in the villages of the tropical region transported them across the mountains to grow them, Raymond said.Results from the Canadian-U.S.-Venezuelan project yielded evidence that peppers were farmed in the region more than 1,000 years before the plants were cultivated in Peru or Mexico, Raymond said.
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  It is not known yet if chili peppers were used only as a condiment for the culture's diet of maize, beans and yams, or if they were also grown for medicinal purposes, Raymond said.http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070215/od uk nm/oukoe uk peppers discovery; ylt=ArOFXXeGUeIoSjK2l6WMhvKdk3QF

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  "Until quite recently it's been assumed that the ancestors of the great highland civilizations, like the Inca and the Aztecs, were responsible for most of the cultural and agricultural advances of the region," said Scott Raymond, a University of Calgary archaeologist and one of the authors of the paper.
  
  "We now have evidence that the indigenous people from tropical, lowland areas deserve credit for the domestication of the chili pepper."
  
  Early Latin American peoples would have found chili peppers, which are rich in vitamin C, to be an excellent complement to fish and starchier foods like maize, beans, yams and corn.
  
  "It's also an excellent disguiser," Raymond said.

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  These Ecuadorian sites represent the earliest known village sites in the Americas, and were excavated by a team led by Dr Scott Raymond of the University of Calgary.
  
  "Until quite recently it's been assumed that the ancestors of the great highland civilizations, like the Inca and the Aztecs, were responsible for most of the cultural and agricultural advances of the region," says Raymond.
  
  "We now have evidence that the indigenous people from tropical, lowland areas deserve credit for the domestication of the chilli pepper."
  
  Early Latin American peoples would have found chilli peppers, which are rich in vitamin C, to be an excellent complement to fish and starchier foods like corn, beans and yams.
  
  "It's also an excellent disguiser," says Raymond.

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  "The domestication and dispersal of maize has been a hot topic in archaeology for decades and these are the earliest indisputable dates for its presence in South America," Raymond said."It has long been thought that maize may have been used south of Panama at this time for ritual purposes but this shows it was also being consumed as food."
  
  Raymond led the excavation of tropical village sites in western Ecuador in the early 1980s, which are the oldest known villages in the Americas.
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  Starch analysis was also used by Zarrillo and Raymond for a study published in Science last year that traced the domestication and spread of chili peppers throughout South America, Central America and the Caribbean more than 6,000 years ago.
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  The paper "Directly dated starch residues document early formative maize (Zea mays L.) in tropical Ecuador" by Sonia Zarrillo, Deborah M. Pearsall (University of Missouri), J. Scott Raymond, Mary Ann Tisdale (Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada) and Dugane Quon (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) will be available in the March 24 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences at: www.pnas.org at 3 pm (MDT).
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  U of C PhD student Sonia Zarrillo and archaeologist Dr. Scott Raymond will be available for media interviews and photo opportunities in the U of C Archaeology Department's South American research lab from 10 am to 12 pm (MDT) on Monday, March 24.

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