"B. P. TBC" wrote in message
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Hi all!

What did the mayas and incas eaten? Could they cooking?


Most of the Maya lived in low lands, tropical forests/"scrub", while the
Maya live far away and generally at much higher altitudes. The two peoples
dined on quite different diets, and the Inca seem to have been only barely
involved with corn, the "staple of the rest of the Americas (but were big on
taters, and a grain, quinoa.

The Maya's descendants (at least in my lifetime) still ate a small
home-raised nearly hairless dog, tender, but a bit off-putting when you
encountered paws in the stew. Many native Americans enjoyed dog as a
delicacy in some cases,as available meat in others. One can still find
plenty of "Mayan" food in Mexican resturants where the owners/cooks are from
the Yucatan. Tamales in banana leaves, a Guatemalen standard are close
enough to count...(and "pipil": is Mayan).

Of course the Aztecs seem likely to have eaten members of neighbor groups
which paid them tribute. Likely more than ceremonial removal of hearts from
living sacrificial victims, there's good chance that their population growth
had outstripped the availability of animal protein in the Valley of Mexico.
The Mayas only threw the occasional virgin into the cenote/limestone sink
holes full of water), while the Inca preferred to strangle them on mountain
tops to appease the Gods.

Some "searches" may be of great help....

TMO