24 April 1895, W. M. W. VanNess, Vases, “But where can I get the gourds—I beg your pardon, the cucurbitas?’
1977, George F. Carter, Origins of Agriculture Chapter A Hypothesis Suggesting a Single Origin of Agriculture, To the gourd growers and potters reaching America, would not the most obvious candidate in this strange botanical world be the most gourdlike plant, hence the cucurbitas? The suggestion has been made that the earliest use of the cucurbitas was for their seeds.
2019, Marina F. de-Escalada-Pla, Value-Added Ingredients and Enrichments of Beverages, There are some registrations that associate the cucurbitas to the origin of the agriculture and the civilization. They are also among the first species of plants to be domesticated. Some evidences showed that the mixture of cucurbitas, corn, and beans was the nutritional base of the pre-Columbian civilizations (Withaker and Bemis, 1975).
