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Large precolonial villages in the Brazilian Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture SECONDARY_TEXT retrieval pending
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QUOTE {} | 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... |
QUOTE {} | 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 ... |