Study finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions

Study finds Indigenous people cultivated hazelnuts 7,000 years ago, challenging modern assumptions

The hazelnut tree has long been a part of the landscape in parts of British Columbia. A 19th-century settler gave the village of Hazelton in northern B.C.'s Skeena region its name because of the abundance of hazelnuts in the area. A new study published

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