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Meaning of buscando amaranto by Jimeno Álvarez





Jimeno Álvarez

buscando amaranto
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Amaranth was a plant of high consideration in pre-Columbian peoples. Ignorance of the conquistadores caused his agony. Currently the particular and scientific contribution tries to restore its place as a nutritional and economic resource.Amaranth is one of the oldest cultures of Mesoamerica: the Maya, the Aztecs, the Incas, gatherers and hunters peoples, knew him. The first data of this plant dating back 10,000 years, according to some researchers, and others, as Juan Manuel Vargas, of the University of Sonora, designates which do archaeological samples of grain amaranth or Amaranthus cruentus, found in Tehuacan, Puebla, date back to 4000 BC, and indicate that probably originated in Central America and South do.?? Giovannina Vele, a degree in biology, a graduate of the Central University of Venezuela, confirms that the more remote testimony of amaranth, associated with human activity, is 4. 000 years BC, referred to some seeds found in the State of Veracruz (41 Mexico; in the cave of Coxtatlan, in the indigenous communities called Ocampos do.?

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