{
  "id": 12663348,
  "title": "Soil evidence suggests early farming in Maya region 6,000 years ago",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/soil-evidence-suggests-early-farming-in-maya-region-6-000-years-ago",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-07T16:20:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-10-soil-evidence-early-farming-maya.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}