What was the most special food? What foods are still eaten today? Activities Ancient Maya diet was mostly maize, squash, beans (the ‘Three Sisters,’) and chili peppers. Of these, maize was ...

“I wish I’d done two years of kung fu finger exercises in preparation,” she says. Analysis of the soil samples she collects shows the Maya diet was more varied than previously thought. The Maya grew ...

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The analysis of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in bones from Maya burials has now permitted some reconstruction of diet. The importance of maize has been confirmed, though it does seem to have become a ...