Little barley, one of the North American Lost Crops (IMAGE)

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Little barley, one of the North American Lost Crops

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While it may just look like a regular field, the plants growing on either side of this bison trail are primarily little barley, one of the North American Lost Crops. This photo was taken during field work by Natalie Muller of Washington University in St. Louis in an attempt to determine the role that bison may have played in shaping the ecology of the progenitors for certain ancient crops.

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Natalie Mueller

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