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Popcorn was one of the Agriculture, food and drink good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
February 18, 2006	Good article reassessment	Delisted
February 6, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed

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The oldest definitive evidence for popping corn was discovered in [[New Mexico]], [[United States]], determined to be as early as 3600 BCE, and attributed to the [[Ancestral Puebloan]] peoples, who maintained trade networks with peoples in tropical Mexico.<ref name="usda" /><ref>{{cite web |title=History of Popcorn |url=https://www.popcorn.org/All-About-Popcorn/History-of-Popcorn |website=www.popcorn.org |access-date=January 16, 2024}}</ref>

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Between 2007 and 2011, evidence, as early as 4700 BCE, for popping corn, as macrofossil cobs, were discovered at the Paredones and [[Huaca Prieta]] archaeological sites on the northern coast of Peru.<ref name="Gwr/1stPop">

In 1948 and 1950, evidence, as early as 3600 BCE, for popping corn, as ears of popcorn, were discovered by Harvard anthropology graduate student Herbert W. Dick<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dick |first1=Herbert W. |title=Bat Cave |date=1961 |publisher=[[School of American Research]] |isbn=978-0-8263-0287-8 |language=en}}</ref> and Harvard botany graduate student Claude Earle Smith, Junior (1922-1987),<ref name="si/CES">{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=C. Earle Smith Jr. papers |url=https://www.si.edu/object/archives/sova-naa-2006-24 |website=[[Smithsonian Institution]] |access-date=9 October 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="thecrimson/Corn">{{cite news |title=Scientists Find 4000-Year-Old Corn |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1949/4/11/scientists-find-4000-year-old-corn-pgraduate-students/ |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=www.thecrimson.com {{!}} The [[Harvard Crimson]] |date=1949-04-11}}</ref> in a complex of rock shelters, dubbed the "Bat Cave", in [[Catron County, New Mexico|Catron County]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dick |first1=Herbert W. |title=The Archaeology of Bat Cave, Catron County, New Mexico |date=1957 |publisher=Harvard University |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vnjInQEACAAJ |language=en}}</ref> west-central New Mexico, and attributed to the [[Ancestral Puebloan]] peoples, who maintained trade networks with peoples in tropical Mexico.<ref name="usda" /><ref name="Gwr/1stPop">{{cite web |title=Earliest popcorn |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/630494-earliest-popcorn |website=Guinness World Records |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |access-date=9 October 2024 |quote=The first evidence of popcorn has been radiocarbon-dated dates to as old as 6,700 years (c. 4700 BCE), based on macrofossil cobs unearthed between 2007 and 2011 at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on the northern coast of Peru.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Copies of Herbert W. Dick photographs of excavations at Bat Cave {{!}} Collection: NAA.PhotoLot.R86-67 |url=https://sova.si.edu/record/naa.photolot.r86-67 |website=sova.si.edu |access-date=9 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Erin |title=Friends celebrate completion of professor Dick's project |url=https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2000/02/07/friends-celebrate-completion-professor-dick/8997308007/ |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=Pueblo Chieftain}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Archaeological Evidence |journal=Maize: Origin, Domestication, and its Role in the Development of Culture |date=2013 |pages=118–220 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/maize/archaeological-evidence/A4191869D9DF2FEC198DE792100A2D4F |access-date=9 October 2024 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=History of Popcorn |url=https://www.popcorn.org/All-About-Popcorn/History-of-Popcorn |website=www.popcorn.org |access-date=9 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The History of Popcorn |url=https://kingkorn.net/pages/the-history-of-popcorn |website=KingKorn Gourmet Popcorn |access-date=9 October 2024 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="votSW/catron">{{cite web |last1=Hammons |first1=Suzanne |title=Shootouts, Cattle Drives and Model T’s: a History of the Villages of Catron County |url=https://voiceofthesouthwest.org/shootouts-cattle-drives-and-model-ts-a-history-of-the-villages-of-catron-county/ |website=Voice of the Southwest |access-date=9 October 2024 |date=28 July 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Warner |first1=Nancy |title=Kettle Corn & Popcorn from the Bat Cave |url=https://nancy-warner.com/2012/02/23/kettle-corn-popcorn-from-the-bat-cave/ |website=Nancy Warner |access-date=9 October 2024 |language=en |date=23 February 2012}}</ref>

69.181.17.113 (talk) 17:20, 9 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

archaeology: Herbert W. Dick, of Albuquerque

botany: C. Earle Smith, of St. Petersburg, Florida

69.181.17.113 (talk) 17:56, 9 October 2024 (UTC)Reply