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Rice is difficult to grow in the Pacific, so how did it end up in a cave? Archaeologists reveal the hidden history of this ancient and well-travelled grain.

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Editor’s note: This is an edited excerpt from “Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific,” by Coll Thrush (University of Washington Press, $29.95).

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