Food and Drink Atlas
This atlas keeps a public record when it changes its mind about something it stated plainly: every entry that has moved between a confident published claim and a corrected one, newest first, with what changed, why, and a link back to the page it concerns.
2 corrections on record.
Concerns Cacao
Earliest Documented Use, To (Year)
What Changed. This entry moved from well-attested to partially Attested on October 10, 2026.
Why. About 5,300 years ago, the date of the cacao starch grains, theobromine residues and ancient DNA at Santa Ana-La Florida in southeast Ecuador reported in 2018; stored as the round year 3300 BCE, so the year is approximate.
Sourced to The use and domestication of Theobroma cacao during the mid-Holocene in the upper Amazon (Nature Ecology & Evolution), Sonia Zarrillo.
Concerns Cacao
Earliest Documented Use, From (Year)
What Changed. This entry moved from well-attested to partially Attested on October 10, 2026.
Why. About 5,300 years ago, the date of the cacao starch grains, theobromine residues and ancient DNA at Santa Ana-La Florida in southeast Ecuador reported in 2018; stored as the round year 3300 BCE, so the year is approximate.
Sourced to The use and domestication of Theobroma cacao during the mid-Holocene in the upper Amazon (Nature Ecology & Evolution), Sonia Zarrillo.