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Pre-Columbian Chocolate Discovered at Chaco

Chaco Culture National Historical Park National Park Service, n.d.. nps.gov.

The park's account of the cacao finding: five sherds from a 2004 to 2007 UNM excavation, theobromine on the three likely cylinder-jar sherds, fewer than 200 cylinder jars known from the Southwest, 111 from one room at Pueblo Bonito, almost all held at the American Museum of Natural History.

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Used for the cylinder jar count and holder.

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National Park Service, C. C. N. H. P. (n.d.). Pre-Columbian Chocolate Discovered at Chaco. nps.gov. https://home.nps.gov/chcu/learn/historyculture/pre-columbian-chocolate-discovered-at-chaco.htm
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