October 29, 2018 at 05:13PM The Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon were using cacao 5300 years ago

An international team* associating archaeologists, anthropologists, biochemists and geneticists recently found for the first time archaeological traces of cocoa use in South America in pre-Columbian times. This result is published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

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