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Cacao may have been consumed at feasts in the 12th century by Mississippian people in the city of Etowah, in the modern state of Georgia



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Cacao in the Mississippian World: Archaeogenomic evidence for T. cacao consumption at the Etowah Site, Georgia 

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Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site.

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Credit: Archaeo-Geophysical Associates, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)



Article URL: https://plos.io/4wmrtht

Article title: Cacao in the Mississippian World: Archaeogenomic evidence for T. cacao consumption at the Etowah Site, Georgia

Author countries: US, France.

Funding: XA, HV, JU, BR, OF, CL all participated in the MUSE Amazacacao project publicly funded through ANR (the French National Research Agency) under the “Investissement de avenir” program with the reference ANR-16-IDEX-0006. http://anr.fr/en/.

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