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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: Chocolate Origins Traced to Beer Makers 3,000 Years Ago


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Scientists believe the first cacao beverages were sipped from vessels like this one, which was found in northern Honduras.

New analyses of similar pottery fragments suggest people have been enjoying chocolate for more than 3,000 years—about 500 years earlier than previously believed.

Photograph courtesy PNAS/National Academy of Sciences