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c. 5000 BC
Squash and chili are the first plants to be cultivated in America, in the Tehuácan valley in modern Mexico
Red and green chili peppers
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c. 3000 BC
The llama and the alpaca, two south American members of the camel family, are domesticated
c. 2500 BC
At Huaca Prieta, the earliest known farming community in South America, squash, gourds and chili are cultivated
c. 2000 BC
Medicine men in Peru practise trephination, cuttting holes in the skulls of brave or foolhardy patients
c. 1500 BC
The Maya are believed to have lived in the same region from about 1500 BC to the present day - America's longest example of continuity
c. 1200 BC
San Lorenzo develops as the first centre of America's earliest civilization, that of the Olmecs
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