If you celebrate Thanksgiving, you're taking part in a culinary tradition that traces back thousands—not hundreds—of years.
If you celebrate Thanksgiving, you're taking part in a culinary tradition that traces back thousands—not hundreds—of years. Turkeys served as ceremonial centerpieces for Mayan rulers as early as 350 B.C.E., according to archaeologist Erin Thornton at Washington State University in Pullman.
for more than a decade. Their work was the first to reveal that Mayans raised and managed wild turkeys —the same species as the Butterball on your table—more than 2300 years ago, making them the first vertebrates to be domesticated on the North American continent.about how archaeologists look for evidence of early domestication in these birds and what they meant for the ancient civilizations that reared them. The conversation has been edited for clarity and length.
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