CU-Boulder study shows Maya intensively cultivated manioc 1,400 years ago

Evidence found at ancient village of Ceren in El Salvador buried by volcanic ash about 600 A.D.

		IMAGE: CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Payson Sheets and his team uncovered a manioc field one-third the size of football field buried under 10 feet of ash by the eruption of a volcano... Click here for more information.

A University of Colorado at Boulder team has uncovered an ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system -- a large manioc field intensively cultivated as a staple crop that was buried and exquisitely preserved under a blanket of ash by a volcanic eruption in present-day El Salvador 1,400 years ago.