[Aztlan] Food from an Andean feast 4200 years ago identified

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

University of Missouri researchers have studied dish ware from a feast  
from more than 4000 years ago at the Fox Temple at the Buena Vista  
site in Peru and have recovered starch grains from manioc, potato,  
chili pepper, arrowroot and algarrobo. Residue from bottle gourds and  
squash artifacts were studied to ascertain the foods they held at the  
feast where this food was served.

EurekAlert has the story here;
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uom-ahl072109.php

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