The Brazil nut tree is the tallest in the jungle and Bolivia, not Brazil supplies most of the nuts.
Posted on 09/02/2015 10:20:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
“Well, I’m stumped.
Stumps come from the Sahara Forest.
Don’t you mean Sahara Desert?
Sure, now.”
Desert is often misspelled as dessert. Desserts are, generally speaking, sweet.
So, it must be someplace without sand.
Sand Franciscold?
Sand Franciscold was rather famous for its perversions and depravities, much like the Atlantis of legend before it fell.
Famous is like legendary, mostly. So, you might be on to something.
Interesting part is the dating of the tidal wave - 1200 BC and the appearance of the Sea Peoples in the eastern Mediterranean. The Egyptians called one group of the Sea Peoples Confederacy the Sherdana and it is thought they might have been Sardinians.
The Sea Peoples are a modern invention; there are two references to them in Egyptian contemporary records, which are misdated by centuries anyway. The Sea Peoples left no towns, no distinctive burials, armor, weapons, rulers (including conquerors of the lands they supposedly conquered), written records in their own right, and perhaps most significantly, no wrecks -- the last one being pretty damned peculiar for a massive group of seagoing conquerors.
I wonder what Sardinia looked like about 7-8,000 years ago before the Mediterranean ‘re-filled’ with water after the Ice Age? I went there in 1963...and Malta. I remember it being dry.
Brazil nuts are not farmed...they are all harvested in the wild. They tried to farm Brazil nuts but failed. Has to do with the bees. Only the female bee is strong enough to pollinate the Brazil Nut flower but her mate dines on a number of other flowers (orchids, etc) that only grow in the jungle. Put the tree on a farm and the male bee starves to death, etc.
"Brazil nut tree's yellow flowers contain very sweet nectar and can only be pollinated by an insect strong enough to lift the coiled hood on the flower and with a tongue long enough to negotiate the complex coiled flower. For this reason, the Brazil nut's reproduction depends on the presence of the orchid Coryanthes vasquezii, which does not grow on the Brazil nut tree itself. The orchids produce a scent that attracts small male long-tongued orchid bees (Euglossa spp), as the male bees need that scent to attract females. The large female long-tongued orchid bee pollinates the Brazil nut tree. Without the orchid, the bees do not mate, and therefore the lack of bees means the fruit does not get pollinated."
Ok, guess it was just too esoteric.
It comes from the stage play “Charlie’s Aunt”.
In which every time the word Brazil is mentioned
the reply is “Oh, where the nuts come from!”.
or it is all misinterpreted
the towers are archeo astronomy related structures that tell time
If we look at the facilities we have today, and try to imagine the past equivalents in a successful society, The frequency of the sites would indicate that either there was a severe need for protection (a very large and mobile raider population) or the sites served some utilitarian purpose.
The former could be verified or eliminated by excavating for the remnants of attacks, either military camp debris or evidence of walls being broached, burning, etc. Projectile points and such should be fairly abundant.
Storage for grain and/or silage (animal fodder), would make particular sense, considering the shorter transport distances from field to storage afforded by the number and distribution of sites. That, too should leave evidence in the forms of seeds or pollen or plant debris of a type likely to have been the results of agricultural or animal husbandry efforts, and may be supported by a lack of evidence of military action.
It would be possible for these sites to serve multiple uses as well, including both as grain/fodder storage, military defense, and be also aligned to foster astronomical measurements, although I would think the selection of site would be dominated by military considerations if that was the primary function, even distribution within an area if agriculture was paramount, and if in concert with other sites it served an astronomical purpose, the alignment and relative position of the sites would dominate site selection.
Land level was probably much lower. Sea levels have changed significantly sine the last ice age.
It's me.
I like the Brazil nut/bee story and have been waiting to tell someone. Your mention of Brazil Nuts was enough to get me started. Ha. Ha (I read that LOL is uncool now)
Well, that certainly explains prehistoric migration....
One certainly did not need ships and planes to go from one continent to another.
Whar about the Egyptian records, including illustrations and names?
I learn something new every day, at least. I knew they collected Brazil nuts from the wild, but now I know the reason why. Thanks.
The Brazil nut tree is the tallest in the jungle and Bolivia, not Brazil supplies most of the nuts.
Very interesting. How do you know so much about Brazil nuts?
Of course, if a comet is made up of ice, then 6 millenium old comet fragments might be found underwater....?????!!!!!
It started out with a TV documentary I saw about them....then, searching the internet.
There's an intriguing documentary I saw about a fish that only eats the fruit from a certain tree that overhangs (fruit drops into the water) the waterway where it lives and eats nothing else. If the tree disappears, these fishes die. Now, more intrigue.
The tree can only re-seed itself after its fruit and seeds pass through the gut of this fish. The seeds will not germinate unless they are eaten and expelled by this particular fish. The tree disappears without the fish.
A perfect example of obligate symbiosis.
"Some symbiotic relationships are obligate, meaning that both symbionts entirely depend on each other for survival. For example, many lichens consist of fungal and photosynthetic symbionts that cannot live on their own.[4][9][10][11] Others are facultative, meaning that they can, but do not have to live with the other organism."
This knowledge is very entertaining for me.
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