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Here’s how ancient Amazonians became master maize farmers

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Casarabe people built an innovative network of drainage canals and water-storing ponds that enabled two maize harvests annually .

Large-scale maize cultivation during rainy and dry parts of the year fed the rise of urban sprawl across Amazonian forests and savannas in northern Bolivia .

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