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When was the cashew first used by its Indigenous South American originators?

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The source documents only the 16th-century Portuguese contact and spread of the cashew, a European-contact date, not an Indigenous first-use or domestication date; no earlier archaeological or textual attestation was found.

What would resolve this Archaeobotanical remains of Anacardium occidentale from a pre-Columbian Brazilian site, dated and published.
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