The Americas from Foraging to Agriculture, 10,000 BC-4000 BC
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Mesoamerican Foragers - The Early Domesticated Maize
Archaeologists have found evidence of grains stuck on chipped stone tools and grinding stones, dated to precisely this time. Even at this early date, their preferred grain was starting to look more like maize than wild Teosinte. The people living at the Ziwatocz Tla Shelter weren't just growing maize either. Those same layers also held the remains of squash, another one of the key domesticated plants of the Mesoamerican agricultural complex.
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