People have been enjoying chocolate for more than 3,000 years—about 500 years earlier than previously believed, according to a new study. Researchers also think that chocolate was discovered by accident—when Central American Indians making beer from the pulp of cacao seedpods found a new use for a byproduct of that process.
The new findings about chocolate’s origins were gleaned from traces of cacao found on pottery fragments dating from about 1100 B.C. to 800 B.C.
The fragments were uncovered between 1995 and 2000 at archaeological excavations near Puerto Escondido in Honduras.
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