Evidence item

The isotope summary directly contrasts maize reliance in open-air villages with diverse diets in nearby rock shelters. MEASUREMENT

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Source: Large precolonial villages in the Brazilian Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:5156cb450f9d3c2dc79ea4d53efec7517ef9a65963dd762ef7c8eb27df712918

The isotope evidence shows that people associated with the open-air villages obtained a substantial proportion of their diet from maize, whereas contemporaneous populations living in nearby rock shelters consumed much more diverse foods and showed little evidence of intensive maize use.