You don't normally see a lot of early domestication work coming out of Belize, so this is nice to see. Most of the research has pointed to central Mexico as the

You don't normally see a lot of early domestication work coming out of Belize, so this is nice to see. Most of the research has pointed to central Mexico as the epicenter of maize domestication, but it looks like they have a way better record to look at down there. It's kind of strange how breatheless the UNM press office is to talk about the hardships of the site though. Who measures distance by walking days? Kudos to the team for managing what was surely a difficult site in notoriously gnarly terrain though