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March 23, 2016

Production of butter from shea trees in West Africa pushed back 1,000 years
Eugene OR (SPX) Mar 23, 2016
University of Oregon anthropologists have pushed back the history of harvesting shea trees in West Africa by more than 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. Evidence for earlier use of the wild trees dating to A.D. 100 - reported in the March issue of the Journal of Ethnobiology - surfaced from excavations at the well-preserved archaeological site at Kirikongo in western Burkina Faso. Shea trees only grow in a narrow belt of fertile, well-drained soils in the savannah stretching from West ... read more

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