Posted on 10/02/2024 12:34:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Microscopic granules of sweet potato starch (kūmara) have been discovered with Asia-Pacific taro and Pacific yam (uwhi) at Triangle Flat, a site located on the northern tip of New Zealand's South Island, according to an RNZ report. Researchers from the University of Otago – Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka determined that the Māori cultivated these crops as early as A.D. 1290 to 1385. "The first people who came here, came here to garden as well as to hunt things and they demonstrated from the outset that they were really sophisticated gardeners and they continued to be sophisticated gardeners over time," said archaeologist Ian Barber. It had been previously suggested that the first people to arrive in the islands had been hunter-gatherers who relied on hunting moa and seals. Barber explained that the weather in the area would have been cool, requiring the early farmers to experiment with growing different plants. "So they cut their teeth on all the crops, kūmara is the one that outperforms and becomes the big deal," he concluded. Read the original scholarly article about this research in Antiquity.
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They also had similar tattoos from what I’ve read.
The Vietnamese discovered a Roman era ship buried in the river mud a couple of years ago. Trade was then, as now, a very lucrative enterprise. I imagine the Romans, Egyptians and Phoenicians were very competitive............
My mother made the best “pommes frites” ever. She used peanut oil and some herbs I don’t remember, and sliced Maine russets. I can almost smell them decades later.
For sure. That’s a lot of sailing for a ship back then. I guess the Romans would have to go through the Straits of Gibraltar south along the African coast around the Cape of good Hope, through the Indian ocean. Plenty of place along the way to stop, I’d assume, not like crossing an ocean, but man, that’s a trek.
The sea floor depth and geography is clearly different from place to place.
From memory, however, the surface of the Pacific Ocean only varies a couple feet from place to place.
They could have portaged the ship across the place where the Suez canal is now. It was not an unknown process.............
For example, the difference that produced ‘Beringia’ at what is now the Bering Strait is about 50 meters, while the Persian Gulf was dry at the same time but is only covered by 35 meters.
I’ve had fries made ‘live’ from a freshly julienned potato (”small, medium or large”, then the guy selected one that eyeballs to the right size) and I want a time machine sometime just to get some more. And I’m not particularly a fan of fries. :^)
I’ve had fries made ‘live’ from a freshly julienned potato (”small, medium or large”, then the guy selected one that eyeballs to the right size) and I want a time machine sometime just to get some more. And I’m not particularly a fan of fries. :^)
I made French Fries, but, I swear, you gotta crack that sucker juuuuust right.
Where’s Ron Popeil when we need him?
Here is another one. Ancient South Americans were ALL blood type O. Nowhere else in the world at the time was type O so pure, prevalent, and dominant except one little pocket on the northern tip of New Zealand half a world away across on ocean.
The Egyptians had their own Suez Canal since before 1900 BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_of_the_Pharaohs
Thank you for sharing that. I also believe he was correct about the origin of the Scandinavians. I spent a couple months on Google Earth digging for through waterways from the Caspian and Black seas to the Baltic. They are there and go all the way through.
Smart! Very smart of them!...................
Interesting. Didn’t know that, have to check it out.
Makes me wonder who came from where. Seems early and distant migration was more often and varied than what we were taught in school. Probably still taught the same bull.
“Makes me wonder who came from where. Seems early and distant migration was more often and varied than what we were taught in school. Probably still taught the same bull.”
Yep of course we are. I have personally been on digs where those in control of the funding brought an abrupt halt to all operations right at the proverbial 12ft level. There is some reason they do not want anyone to go any deeper in certain places. It is an industry wide unwritten rule to not go any deeper.
To many out of place discoveries to be just coincidence. Like this sweet potato find. How much want want to bet it gets discredited somehow because it bucks the official narrative. Someone’s “expert” work and career are at risk.
Here is something else they don’t discuss much probably because it would upend the history. Human parasites and THEIR migrations. I have read some very unusual facts about parasites. But they have been squashed since.
They aren’t there per se, but the Vikings (as Varangians and whatnot) used portages between rivers to get their ships to and from the Baltic / Black Sea during Byzantine times. Vaguely related, my guess is, they and/or others used the portage method to bypass Niagara Falls using rivers in Ontario.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl#Revision_of_hypothesis
https://www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/82_folder/82_articles/82_heyerdahl.html
https://cannorway.com/discover-the-land-of-our-origin/
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