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245	1	0	_aThe use and domestication of Theobroma cacao during the mid-Holocene in the upper Amazon
490	0		_vNature Ecology & evolution, 2(12), p.1879-1888, 2018
520	3		_aCacao (Theobroma cacao L.)is an important economic crop, yet studies of its domestication history and early uses are limited. Traditionally, cacao is thought to have been first domesticated in Mesoamerica. However, genomic research shows that T. cacao's greatest diversity is in the upper Amazon region of northwest South America, pointing to this region as its centre of origin. Here, we report cacao use identified by three independent lines of archaeological evidence-cacao starch grains, absorbed theobromine residues and ancient DNA-dating from approximately 5,300 years ago recovered from the Santa Ana-La Florida (SALF)site in southeast Ecuador. To our knowledge, these findings constitute the earliest evidence of T. cacao use in the Americas and the first unequivocal archaeological example of its pre-Columbian use in South America. They also reveal the upper Amazon region as the oldest centre of cacao domestication yet identified.
650	1	4	_aCACAO
650	1	4	_aTHEOBROMA CACAO
650	1	4	_aPOD ROT
700	1	2	_aZarrillo, S.
700	1	2	_aGaikwad, N.
700	1	2	_aLanaud, C.
700	1	2	_aPowis, T.
700	1	2	_aViot, C.
700	1	2	_aLesur, I.
700	1	2	_aSolorzano, R. L.
856	4	0	_uhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1uN88_INelpcWWNIkqlEL3HQtMQk6GL49/view?usp=drivesdk _zPara ver el documento ingresa a Google con tu cuenta: @cicy.edu.mx
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