Large precolonial villages in Brazil’s Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture, study finds
A new study offers the clearest picture yet of how Indigenous communities lived in Brazil’s Cerrado before European contact. The findings challenge the long-running idea that people in the region either survived as mobile hunter-gatherers or relied on large-scale maize farming
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/precolonial-villages-in-brazil-practiced-maize-based-polyculture/
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