Chasing Centuries: The Search for Ancient Agave Cultivars Across the Desert Southwest

by Ron Parker

Chasing Centuries is a one-of-a-kind travel-history book that takes the reader along on an exciting and little known adventure at the crossroads of archaeology and botany that examines the depth and duration of human/Agave coevolution across the desert southwest. Travel with author Ron Parker as he discovers interesting assortments of unusual agaves apparently associated with archaeological sites long since abandoned by residents of extinct ancient cultures. These agaves appear to be anthropogenic cultivars; living archaeological relics developed and planted by indigenous pre-Columbian Native Americans, and many are still growing exactly where they were planted hundreds of years ago.

161 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Heidi Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not a botanist. This didn't make me one want to be one. Still I liked the care, beauty, work and joy that went into it.