A new research by an international team of archaeologists provides convincing evidence that the earliest civilization of South America relied heavily on agriculture – specifically the large-scale production of maize (Zea mays). Zea mays (Franz Eugen Köhler) For decades, researchers have debated whether the people who lived on or near the Pacific coast of Peru during the Late Archaic period (3000-1800 BC). subsisted primarily on fish or whether...
