Soil evidence suggests early farming in Maya region 6,000 years ago
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Soil evidence suggests early farming in Maya region 6,000 years ago
A new study on ancient food production in tropical Belize, co-led by the University of New Mexico and published in Communications Earth & Environment, provides evidence that people in the Maya-speaking region were dedicated farmers thousands of years before the first large villages emerged.
Old fields, new trail: In the south of Belize, a combination of soil analysis, pollen and charcoal indicates agriculture in wetlands about 6,000 years ago. Later, cultivation shifted increasingly on higher slopes. The researchers suspect that fluctuating rainfall and a growing population favored this change. Albuquerque (U.S.A.). The Mayan high culture [...] The article Soil analysis indicates agriculture in the Mayan area 6,000 years ago first …
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