by JESSICA E. SARACENI
Popcorn was eaten in Peru 1,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study by Dolores Piperno of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. “This evidence further indicated that in many areas corn arrived before pots did, and that early experimentation with corn as a food was not dependent on the presence of pottery,” she added.
How did the minds of Neanderthals work? Thomas Wynn and Frederick L. Coolidge of the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, consider recent Neanderthal research.
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