Indigenous nations in present-day Georgia may have enjoyed cacao

Various Indigenous peoples across the southwestern United States as well as Central and South America have harvested cacao plants for millennia. The same can’t be said for communities living on the other side of the continent, however. The absence of chocolate’s main ingredient on their menus isn’t due to culinary preferences, but a completely different climate in the southeast that remains largely inhospitable to the tropical plant.That said, new evidence indicates eastern Ind