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Soil evidence suggests early farming in Maya region 6,000 years ago

A new study on ancient food production in tropical Belize, co-led by the University of New Mexico and published in Communications Earth & Environment, provides evidence that people in the Maya-speaking region were dedicated farmers thousands of years before the first large villages emerged.

Soil evidence suggests early farming in Maya region 6,000 years ago

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