date:Oct 30, 2018
an archaeological site in the region.
This new study shows us that people in the upper reaches of the Amazon basin, extending up into the foothills of the Andes in southeastern Ecuador, were harvesting and consuming cacao that appears to be a close relative of the type of cacao later used in Mexico -- and they were doing this 1,500 years earlier, said Michael Blake, study co-author and professor in the UBC department of anthropology. They were also doing so using elaborate pottery that pre-date