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cassava

manioc

yuca

tapioca

on-line video: traditional manioc processing -- Gilles Chertier
on-line video: preparing manioc flour -- Gilles Chertier

Cassava root
(Manihot esculenta)

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• Ancient Farm Discovery Yields Clues to Maya Diet -- National Geographic (20 August 2007)
  
  
• Cassava [Research & Impact: Areas of Research] -- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
  
  
• First Ancient Manioc Fields In Americas Discovered -- Science Daily (24 Auguest 2007)
  
  
• The Canela Indians, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF THE CANELA: Manioc Processing -- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
  
  
• Fare of the Country; Saturday Staple In Brazil: Manioc -- GLORIA LEVITAS; GLORIA LEVITAS IS A WRITER WHO TEACHES ANTHROPOLOGY AT QUEENS COLLEGE, NEW YORK (11 Cecember 1988)
  
  
• Manioc -- Buried Mirror: Mesoamerica and the Maya World
  
  
• Maya Intensively Cultivated Manioc 1,400 Years Ago -- ScienceDaily (17 June 2009)
  
  
• New CU-Boulder Research Effort Discovers Ancient Maya Intensively Cultivated Manioc -- University of Colorado at Bolder (16 June 2009)

Yuca Ceramic
Moche Culture
Larco Museum Collection
Lima, Peru