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When was maize domesticated in Mesoamerica?


2700 BCE


3700 BCE


5200 BCE


4700 BCE

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4700 BCE

Archaeological evidence (e.g., early cobs and phytoliths from sites like Guilá Naquitz and Tehuacán) indicates maize was domesticated in Mesoamerica by roughly the mid-5th millennium BCE.