For decades, researchers have debated the subsistence strategies of precolonial societies in the Brazilian Cerrado (tropical savanna): Were they hunter-gatherers or intensive maize farmers, and in either case, how did they organize themselves and interact with the land they inhabited?
Large precolonial villages in the Brazilian Cerrado practiced maize-based polyculture, evidence reveals
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