Today I Learned...
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| Library of Congress, by John Smith 1624 |
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he Native American Monacan
nation that resided, and still resides, in central Virginia, including
Charlottesville, primarily lived by rivers and had a staple diet of maize
(ancient corn). This dietary essential
was discovered through the scientific examination of isotopes from ancient
skeletal remains that, with the blessing of the Monacans, were exhumed from
burial mounds.
Source: Monacan Millenium by Jeffrey L. Hantman