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How was popcorn discovered? An archaeologist on its likely appeal for people in the Americas millennia ago

  • Written by Sean Rafferty, Professor of Anthropology, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageCould a spill by the cook fire have been popcorn's eureka moment?Paul Taylor/Stone via Getty Imagesimage

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