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Archaeobotanical analysis showed that the people living at this site grew and ate rice, browntop millet, mung bean, horsegram, pigeon pea and citrus fruits. Zooarchaeological analysis shows that they ate cattle, nilgai, chital, wild pig and possibly buffalo. [2] They used animal bone and horn to make tools, such as bone harpoons and digging sticks.
The pigeon pea [1] (Cajanus cajan) or toor dal is a perennial legume from the family Fabaceae native to the Eastern Hemisphere. [2] The pigeon pea is widely cultivated in tropical and semitropical regions around the world, being commonly consumed in South Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Some of the plants that were analyzed were citrullus lanatus, or egusi melon/watermelon, found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun, cajanus cajan, or pigeon pea, found in a 12th Dynasty tomb at Thebes, vigna unguiculata, or cowpea, found in ancient Egypt during the 5th Dynasty, and ricinus communis, or castor bean, found in Pre-Dynastic contexts. [80]
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The tur pod bug is the most damaging sap-sucking pest of pigeon pea in India. [citation needed] The pods and seeds are the prime site for attack, young seeds being damaged; during heavy attacks the pods become shrivelled. Flowers, leaves and young shoots are additionally attacked. [citation needed]
The site consists of a 16 feet (5 m) high and 240 feet (73 m) wide platform mound, with a large associated village surrounded by a palisade.It was occupied by Dallas phase peoples of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture between 1200 and 1500 CE. [1]
A Vavilov Center (of Diversity) is a region of the world first indicated by Nikolai Vavilov to be an original center for the domestication of plants. [3] For crop plants, Nikolai Vavilov identified differing numbers of centers: three in 1924, five in 1926, six in 1929, seven in 1931, eight in 1935 and reduced to seven again in 1940.