Editing Banana (section)

=== Early modern spread ===

{{further|Columbian exchange}}

In the [[early modern period]], bananas were encountered by European explorers during the [[Magellan expedition]] in 1521, in both [[Guam]] and the [[Philippines]]. Lacking a name for the fruit, the ship's historian [[Antonio Pigafetta]] described them as "figs more than one [[Palm (unit)|palm]] long."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Amano |first1=Noel |last2=Bankoff |first2=Greg |last3=Findley |first3=David Max |last4=Barretto-Tesoro |first4=Grace |last5=Roberts |first5=Patrick |title=Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago |journal=[[The Holocene]]|date=February 2021 |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=313–330 |doi=10.1177/0959683620941152 |bibcode=2021Holoc..31..313A |s2cid=225586504 |doi-access=free |hdl=21.11116/0000-0006-CB04-1 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Nowell-1962">{{cite book |last=Nowell |first=C.E. |year=1962 |title=Magellan's Voyage Around the World |chapter=Antonio Pigafetta's account |publisher=[[Northwestern University Press]] |oclc=347382 |hdl=2027/mdp.39015008001532 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015008001532?urlappend=%3Bseq=144}}</ref>{{rp|130, 132}} Bananas were introduced to [[South America]] by Portuguese sailors who brought them from West Africa in the 16th century.<ref name="Gibson-2012">{{cite web |first=Arthur C. |last=Gibson |url=http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Musa/index.html |title=Bananas and plantains |publisher=UCLA |access-date=September 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120614121141/http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Musa/index.html |archive-date=June 14, 2012  }}</ref> Southeast Asian banana cultivars, as well as [[abaca]] grown for fibers, were introduced to North and Central America by the Spanish from the Philippines, via the [[Manila galleons]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Guzmán-Rivas |first=Pablo |title=Geographic Influences of the Galleon Trade on New Spain |journal=[[Revista Geográfica]]|date=1960 |volume=27 |issue=53 |pages=5–81 |jstor=41888470 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41888470}}</ref>

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File:Banana ancestors (Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana) original range.png|Original [[Range (biology)|native ranges]] of the ancestors of modern edible bananas. ''[[Musa acuminata]]'' (green), ''[[Musa balbisiana]]'' (orange)<ref name="de Langhe-2004">{{cite book |chapter=Tracking the banana: its significance in early agriculture |first1=Edmond |last1=de Langhe |first2=Pierre |last2=de Maret |editor1-first=Jon G. |editor1-last=Hather |title=The Prehistory of Food: Appetites for Change |publisher=[[Routledge]] |date=2004 |page=372 |isbn=978-0-203-20338-5 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DMgKW9HleFoC&pg=PA372 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222225618/https://books.google.com/books?id=DMgKW9HleFoC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA372 |archive-date=February 22, 2017  }}</ref>
File:Inside a wild-type banana.jpg|Fruits of [[Wild type|wild-type]] bananas have numerous large, hard seeds.|alt=Photo of two cross-sectional halves of seed-filled fruit.
File:Chronological dispersal of Austronesian people across the Pacific (per Benton et al, 2012, adapted from Bellwood, 2011).png|Chronological dispersal of [[Austronesian peoples]] across the [[Indo-Pacific]]<ref name="Chambers-2013">{{cite book |last1=Chambers |first1=Geoff |title=eLS |chapter=Genetics and the Origins of the Polynesians |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons]] |date=2013 |doi=10.1002/9780470015902.a0020808.pub2|isbn=978-0470016176 }}</ref>
File:Bananas Muslim world.JPG|Actual and probable diffusion of bananas during the [[Arab Agricultural Revolution]] (700–1500 CE)<ref name="Watson-1983"/>|alt=Map stating that banana cultivation occurred in pre-Islamic times in India and Southeast Asia, during the 700–1500 CE "Islamic period" along the [[Nile River]] and in [[Mesopotamia]] and [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]], and less-certainly in sub-Saharan Africa during that same period
File:Acta Eruditorum - III musa arabum pala plinii, 1734 – BEIC 13446956.jpg|Illustration of fruit and plant,<br/>''[[Acta Eruditorum]]'', 1734
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