America's first chocoholics?

• Position: NEW MEXICO - Maya of Central and South Africa - Brief article

Cylindrical clay jars found in the ruins at Chaco Canyon in New Mexico were unlike any other pottery found there, and anthropologists had tong puzzled over how they were used. Now the mystery may be solved: The jars apparently were used for drinking chocolate, like the Maya of Central and South America did as far back as 1000 A.D. A chemist for the Hershey chocolate company tested the pottery and found traces of theobromine, a bioLogicaL marker for cacao, from...