“A 2026 Science Advances study reports that some precolonial Brazilian Cerrado communities sustained large villages through diversified maize-based polyculture, while nearby contemporaneous groups had more diverse diets and little intensive maize use.”

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“Some precolonial Brazilian Cerrado societies sustained large villages through maize grown within diversified agricultural systems rather than intensive monoculture.”

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“In the Brazilian Cerrado, open-air village populations consumed substantial maize, whereas contemporaneous rock-shelter populations had more diverse diets and little evidence of intensive maize use.”

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