Study puts the Neotropics on the map of the world's food production centers in antiquity

(Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) Sambaqui societies had sophisticated diet. Study suggests that hunter-gatherer communities living in coastal Atlantic Forest areas between 8,000 and 1,000 years ago consumed a range of plants and more carbohydrates than expected for the period and region.

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