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Contact: Payson Sheets
payson.sheets@colorado.edu
303-492-7302
University of Colorado at Boulder
Caption: CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Payson Sheets and his team uncovered a manioc field one-third the size of football field buried under 10 feet of ash by the eruption of a volcano about 1,400 years ago that blanketed the Mayan farming village of Ceren in El Salvador.
Credit: Image courtesy University of Colorado
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