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Nature 440, xiii (2 March 2006) | doi:10.1038/7080xiiia; Published online 1 March 2006

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Making the paper: Linda Perry

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Plant fossils reveal ancient trade and agriculture in South America.

Linda Perry spends her days at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC, gazing down a microscope at corn kernels and other grains. The grains —often thousands of years old — reveal information about both the farming and trading patterns of long-gone civilizations.

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