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World Service,5 mins

Unearthing the first potatoes

The Food Chain

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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s Emily Thomas travels to the British Museum where she meets Bill Sillar, from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. He explains how the Inca cultivated the potato using hand tools, but preferred to celebrate maize. (Image: A heart-shaped potato. Credit: Getty Staff )

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