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The report directly describes diversified maize systems capable of sustaining large villages. ARCHAEOLOGICAL

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Source: Large precolonial villages in the Brazilian Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:ad8e2fd17f5c7dd723b88733aa9bc63a153ff41336b8a8ae0853f24b61b173a5

Instead, we found that some societies depended heavily on maize grown within diversified agricultural systems capable of sustaining large villages. This fundamentally changes our understanding of Indigenous food production and settlement in central Brazil.