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c. 5000 BC
 
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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
 
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The llama and the alpaca, two south American members of the camel family, are domesticated      
c. 2500 BC
 
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At Huaca Prieta, the earliest known farming community in South America, squash, gourds and chili are cultivated      
c. 2000 BC
 
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Medicine men in Peru practise trephination, cuttting holes in the skulls of brave or foolhardy patients      
c. 1500 BC
 
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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
 
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San Lorenzo develops as the first centre of America's earliest civilization, that of the Olmecs