In 2008 a group of archaeologists yielded a clay pot in an archaeological
dig on the Menemonee Reservation in Wisconsin. Nothing special you
might say, archaeologists do find clay pots all the time. But this one
800 years old clay pot did contained a real treasure, it contained seeds
from an extinct squash species.
To make it even more extraordinary, a group of students planted some of
the seeds to see if 800-year-old seeds were still viable. And as it
turned out, they were! The result was an ancient squash and they named
it the ‘Gete Okosomin’, which roughly translated means ‘Really Cool Old
Squash'
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