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Roughly 1,000 years ago, residents of pueblos in the American southwest appear to have had an appetite for imported chocolate, according to new research. The finding, based on chemical traces found in clay pots, is evidence of a strong connection between the southwestern puebloans and the ancient civilizations of Mexico and Central America.
This early version of chocolate was already known to be well-established thousands of miles to the south of what is now the southwestern United States. The Mayans, Aztecs and other ancient people from Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America) used beans from the native cacao plant to make a ceremonial drink, which they served frothy.
Chocolate May Have Connected Ancient American Civilizations | Cacao & Ancestral Puebloans & Mesoamerica | LiveScience
Seeded on Sun Apr 3, 2011 3:22 AM EDT
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"People move great distances if they wanted something badly enough."
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#1 - Sun Apr 3, 2011 3:25 AM EDTIf you've never been to Chaco Canyon, put it on your bucket list.
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#2 - Sun Apr 3, 2011 3:26 AM EDTI have no doubt that chocolate is the key to better relationships of any kind! LOL:) Great seed!
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#3 - Sun Apr 3, 2011 10:58 AM EDTWe end to forget that prehispanic cultures were also not bad sailors. The sea and rivers were also highways. We tend to assign cultures to modern archaeologicalal zones. Trade traveled with individual traders, leapfrooged from one "fair" to another,etc. It would be surprising if there were not contacts between most Latin/North American cultures.
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