Evidence of 10,000-Year-Old Crops Points to the Amazon as an Early Agricultural Hotspot
Archaeologists have pinpointed four independent regions where humans first began cultivating crops: China, the Middle East, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. We can now add southwestern Amazonia to this exclusive list, owing to new evidence of plant domestication in the region. Foods made from squash and cassava, a carbohydrate-rich root vegetable, were being consumed in the…
