Archaeology & History

Ancient popcorn discovered in Peru

By T.K. Randall
January 22, 2012 ·  13 comments

Image Credit: CC 2.0 cyclonebill@flickr It's a food that's generally associated with a modern society of cinema-goers but popcorn has actually been part of our diet for thousands of years. "Corn was first domesticated in Mexico nearly 9,000 years ago from a wild grass called teosinte," said museum curator Dolores Piperno. "Our results show that only a few thousand years later corn arrived in South America where its evolution into different varieties that are now common in the Andean region began."

Source: PhysOrg.com | Comments (13)

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