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Richard S. MacNeish was a highly influential Mesoamericanist archaeologist, directing one of the earliest interdisciplinary excavations at several cave sites, known collectively as the Tehuacán Project, Mexico. There he found evidence for "the oldest maize, the oldest squash and bottle gourds, the oldest chile peppers and beans, the oldest tomatoes and avocados, the oldest New World cotton, the oldest domestic dogs and turkeys, and the oldest Mexican honey
bees," as Flannery and Marcus put it in the biography listed below.
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• K. V. Flannery
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Richard Stockton MacNeish [1918-2001]
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