Ancient corn farmers living in pit houses among arid canyons of
what is now Utah may have sweetened their lives with a chocolate
derivative imported from the tropics of Central America, recent
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team of chemists analyzing the remains of an eighth century
village near present-day Moab found theobromine and caffeine,
compounds found in a cacao tree native to Central America and
from which chocolate is derived. "We associate cacao use with
the migration of corn farmers from Mexico into the Southwest,"
University of Pennsylvania archeologist Dorothy Washburn said on
Friday. But the new findings suggest that cacao, a bean that was
ground up and used