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History of Banana

The origins of the banana are kind of complicated as the nature of the banana’s origins themselves.  Archeologists have focused on the Kuk valley of New Guinea around 8,000 BCE as the area where humans first domesticated the banana.  Additionally, though this is the first known location of banana domestication, other spontaneous domestication projects may have occurred throughout the Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.  Therefore, Kuk is the first known instance of banana domestication, but it is probably not the cradle from which all other domesticated species sprang.  

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