title: Early Cultivated Beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) from an Intermontane Peruvian Valley.
abstract: Examples of fully domesticated common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) and lima beans (Phaseolus lunatus) were recovered from deposits in Guitarrero Cave (PAn 14-102) in the Callejón de Huaylas, Ancash, Peru. Carbon-14 dates for stratum II, in which the earliest beans were found, range from 7,680 +/- 280 to 10,000 +/- 300 years before the present.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kaplan
authors.forename: T F
authors.initials: TF
authors.lastname: Lynch
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Smith