Stephens S G, Moseley M E
Science. 1973 Apr 13;180(4082):186-8. doi: 10.1126/science.180.4082.186.
Cotton remains from four archeological sites in central coastal Peru, representing a time sequence from about 2500 to 1000 B.C., were compared with similar materials obtained from living wild and cultivated forms of Gossypium barbadense L. The comparison revealed that the archeological cotton samples were primitive forms of Gossypium barbadense, differing little from present-day wild forms of the same species. Although not the earliest cottons recorded for the New World, they appear to represent the earliest stages of cotton domestication yet recorded.
来自秘鲁中部沿海四个考古遗址的棉花遗迹，代表了大约公元前2500年到1000年的一个时间序列，与从现存的野生和栽培的海岛棉（Gossypium barbadense L.）中获取的类似材料进行了比较。比较结果显示，这些考古棉花样本是海岛棉的原始形态，与现今该物种的野生形态差异不大。虽然它们不是新世界有记录以来最早的棉花，但似乎代表了迄今有记录的棉花驯化的最早阶段。
