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    BBC Learning English

    Words in the News


    Popcorn older than cinema!
    23rd January 2012

    A new study suggests that people living along the coast of northern Peru were eating

    popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. Researchers say corncobs found at

    an ancient site in Peru suggest that the inhabitants used them for making flour and

    popcorn. The BBC's Vanessa Buschschluter reports.

    Maize was first domesticated in Mexico nearly nine-thousand years ago from a wild
    grass.

    It was assumed it took a good few thousand of years to reach South America, where it
    is an important part of today's diet.

    But corn cobs found at ancient archaeological sites in northern Peru indicate it was
    being eaten by people living there as long as 6,700 years ago.

    And, tests carried out on the ancient cobs suggest it was being used in more varied ways
    than previously believed: namely for making flour and popcorn!

    This would mean that in some areas people were making popcorn even before they had
    pottery. How exactly they went about making it, especially if they lacked pottery, is not
    clear.

    Even less clear is just when they would have eaten it, in an age before movies.

    Vanessa Buschschluter, BBC

    Words in the News © British Broadcasting Corporation 2012


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    Vocabulary and definitions

    maize a tall plant grown for its large yellow grains of corn

    domesticated changed into something suitable for human


    consumption

    assumed believed to be true

    diet the food and drink we eat regularly

    corn cobs the long hard parts of the maize plant that the yellow
    grains grow on

    archaeological sites places where historical remains of buildings and


    objects have been found in the ground

    indicate show it is likely

    pottery pots and dishes made with clay that have been
    baked in the oven

    lacked had not enough of

    an age a particular period of history

    More on this story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-16623473

    Read and listen to the story and the vocabulary online:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2012/01/120123_witn_popcorn.shtml

    Words in the News © British Broadcasting Corporation 2012


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