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The Inca had a method of drying potatoes such that they were stable for multiple years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chu%C3%B1o



But the Inca lived to late for this discussion. They already had advanced agriculture. For evolutionary terms, the time before agriculture and the time of the predecessors of homo sapiens are more relevant, because that time span was larger by orders of magnitude.




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