Dietary practices and paleobotanical/paleofaunal evidence in Norte Chico (c. 3500–1800 BCE)

1. Early cotton and bottle-gourd horticulture expands

   Jan 1, 3500 BCELabels: Cotton, Bottle gourd

   • Field Museum
   • Springer

2. Norte Chico monumental centers begin to proliferate

   Jan 1, 3200 BCELabels: Platform mounds, Plazas

   • Oxford Academic
   • Field Museum

3. Coastal–inland exchange links cotton and fish

   Jan 1, 3000 BCELabels: Coastal inland, Anchovy

   • Springer
   • Oxford Academic

4. Coprolites show maize consumption at inland sites

   Jan 1, 2940 BCELabels: Coprolites, Caballete

   • PNAS PMC

5. Sweet potato appears as a common starch food

   Jan 1, 2900 BCELabels: Sweet potato, Coprolites

   • PNAS PMC

6. Guava identified as a key sugar source

   Jan 1, 2900 BCELabels: Guava, Coprolite evidence

   • PNAS PMC

7. Animal protein remains heavily marine-derived

   Jan 1, 2800 BCELabels: Marine protein, Faunal remains

   • Oxford Academic

8. Maize cultivation argued to be widespread (3000–1800 BCE)

   Jan 1, 2600 BCELabels: Maize cultivation, Multi-proxy study

   • PubMed
   • PNAS PMC

9. Dental calculus shows diverse starchy plants at Áspero

   Jan 1, 2500 BCELabels: Dental calculus, spero

   • PMC

10. Cotton fiber technology tied to intensive net fishing

    Jan 1, 2200 BCELabels: Cotton fiber, Net fishing

    • Springer
    • Frontiers

11. Late Archaic dietary regime persists into 2nd millennium BCE

    Jan 1, 2000 BCELabels: Late Archaic, Regional integration

    • Oxford Academic

12. Cotton Preceramic framework coined in scholarship

    Jan 1, 1957 BCELabels: Cotton Preceramic, Fr d

    • Field Museum