6,700-Year-Old Popcorn Discovered: Orville Redenbacher Older Than We Thought?
A discovery at a couple of archaeological mound sites in northern Peru has scientists believing that the people living there were eating popcorn almost 1,000 years earlier than previously reported. Corncobs, husks, and stalks dating from somewhere between 6,700 and 3,000 BC were discovered at Paredones and Huaca Prieta in the country’s northern region. The…
