Evidence found for oldest popcorn in South America
Friday, January 20, 2012 - 17:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
They may not have had television sets, but ancient Peruvians did share one part of our movie-watching culture: popcorn. Researchers have found evidence that societies living along the coast of Peru were eating the air-filled snack about 1,000 years earlier than previously estimated — even predating the use of ceramic pottery.