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  • Study rewrites early history of corn in Illinois

    Feb 14, 2017 8:45 am by Diana YatesResearch
    multi-colored Indian corn, photo by Circe Denyer

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    The study refutes the notion that Indian corn (maize) was cultivated in the Mississippi floodplains in Illinois hundreds of years before its widespread adoption at about 1000 A.D.