[SunkenCiv]

The sweet potato originates in South America in what is present-day Ecuador. The domestication of sweet potato occurred in either Central or South America. In Central America, domesticated sweet potatoes were present at least 5,000 years ago, with the origin of I. batatas possibly between the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico and the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.

Sweet potato | Wikipedia

[rdl6989]

Bookmark

[Tennessee Nana]

They are called yams there...

just like Hawaii the plants were carried by outrigger canoe from Tahiti and Bora Bora...

[Tennessee Nana]

the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.
_______________________________________________

I have a Dutch ancestor who died and was buried near the Orinoco River in Dutch Guiana in the early 1600s ...

It would not have been that far inland...

Does this mean hes really in Venezuela ???

Poor guy...

[Openurmind]

This is a very significant find... Along with the Chicken in South America. There was cross Pacific travel and trade long before thought.

[Openurmind]

The invisible wall has been broken.

[Omnivore-Dan]

The idea that early Americans came across a land bridge from Siberia to Alaska after the last Ice Age is only party true. There is evidence of immigration from the Pacific Islands and across the Atlantic. Early Clovis arrowheads are chipped and shaped in the same fashion as European ones. The facial features of Polynesian and South Americans are very similar. I read somewhere that there were vials of cocaine found in tombs in Egypt.

[ComputerGuy]

I have an old book titled Early Man in the New World by McGowan and Hester. They promoted the theory that Pacific Islanders made it to South America. Two pieces of evidence they offered were the similarity of wooden building construction and what I consider to be the clincher: South Pacific pan pipes were tuned to the exact same pitch as South American ones.

[bert]

As my wife was checking out at the grocery store Saturday, the bag boy asked “what are those”, bagging sweet potatoes.

My wife told him they were sweet potatoes and that they were baked in the oven and then eaten with butter and maybe brown sugar. The bagboy had never eaten sweet potatoes and told her that the only potatoes he had ever eaten were French fries

Sad commentary on society

[zeestephen]

One of the most overlooked features of ancient Pacific Ocean sea travel is that sailors had the likely benefit of several thousand more habitable islands that no longer exist.

Between 115,000 years ago and the glacial maximum 20,000 years ago, Earth's oceans lost about 400 feet in depth.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Sweet potatoes are some of the best survival crops.

The tops can be eaten as well as the tubers, they store well and are not as susceptible to fungus and rot as are potatoes.

Also LOTS of vitamin A.

[blam]

29 Types Of Potatoes From A to Z (With Photos!)