Maize Key to Ancient Maya Diet, Guatemala Study Finds

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Article URL: https://plos.io/4plH2UW

Article title: Profiling the diets of Classic Maya communities living in Southeastern Petén through stable isotope analysis

Author countries: Mexico, USA, Guatemala.

Funding: This work was supported by the SECIHTI (formerly CONAHCYT) Ciencia de Frontera No. 61526 Project titled "Understanding the sensorial experience of Ancient and Modern Maya. New Archaeometric Studies of the Organic Compounds of Foods and Fragrances" and the SECIHTI Postdoctoral Grant "Estancias posdoctorales por México 2022 (1) (CVU 383572)". Additional support for the UNM Research stay was obtained through the UC MEXUS collaborative project CN-19-128. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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