Chocolate may have arrived early to U.S. Southwest

People living in Chaco Canyon in America’s Southwest around A.D. 1000 may have drunk cacao imported from Mexico

Americans liked their chocolate drinks tall and frothy long before Starbucks. People were making cacao beverages in the American Southwest as early as 1000 A.D., suggests a new chemical analysis of ancient jars.

NO LIDS, EXTRA FOAM Analysis of residue from thousand-year-old jars suggests ancient people of the U.S.