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The larger part of this chapter presents a resume of the prehistoric distribution of Phaseolus against a background of time, geography, and human culture in the Greater Southwest (northwestern Mexico and southwestern United States); Mesoamerica; Andean South America (highland and coast); the Intermediate Zone (northern South America through Chiapas, Mexico).
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Kaplan, L., Kaplan, L.N. (1988). Phaseolus in Archaeology. In: Gepts, P. (eds) Genetic Resources of Phaseolus Beans. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2786-5_7
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