Sugar Cane

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Grasses which contain a sweet syrup in their coarse fibrous stems. It is believed that they were first used by man in the New Guinea region in an early phase of Austronesian settlement c 3000 BC.

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Sugar canes (Saccharum sp.) are large grasses which contain a sweet syrup in their coarse fibrous stems. It is believed on botanical grounds that they were first subjected to selection by man in the New Guinea region, by at least an early phase of Austronesian settlement (c3000 BC).

The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied