Green Revolution: South America’s Ancient Plant-Focused Lifestyle Exposed!
The initial residents of present-day Peru primarily relied on a plant-based diet, with meat playing only a minor role. This comes as a surprise to scientists.
4 min readJan 27, 2024
Often, when discussing people who lived in pre-agricultural times, they are referred to as hunters and gatherers. This term implies that they primarily sustained themselves with what they hunted.
Recent research conducted in Peru by scientists from the University of Wyoming in the USA indicates that this perception is not entirely accurate.
Isotopes reveal the diet of ancient people
Archaeologists discovered ancient burial sites in Peru at the Wilamaya Patjxa and Soro Mik’aya Patjxa sites on the Andean Altiplano plateau. The individuals buried there lived between 9000 and 6500 years ago.
How was their diet determined? In recent years, isotopic studies of bones have…
