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.
(Excerpt) Read more at archaeology.org ...
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
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They are called yams there...
just like Hawaii the plants were carried by outrigger canoe from Tahiti and Bora Bora...
the mouth of the Orinoco River in Venezuela.
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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...
This is a very significant find... Along with the Chicken in South America. There was cross Pacific travel and trade long before thought.
The invisible wall has been broken.
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.
https://www.bradshawfoundation.com/south_america/serra_da_capivara/pedra_furada/index.php
“South Pacific pan pipes were tuned to the exact same pitch as South American ones.”
THAT is significant! As a musician I understand the odds of this are astronomical.
Whoops, forgot my breaks...
Hunter’s stash...................
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
Yams are not the same as sweet potatoes, but the names are (in the US anyway) often used interchangeably.
Often a potato (in the form of french fries) is the only vegetable a lot of school-age kids eat. Of course, they often need the carbs. :^)
A long-gone restaurant near where I used to live had an appetizer, sweet potato fries, cut and cooked like french fries, and served with honey mustard and brown sugar. I used to gete that and no entree’.
Between 115,000 years ago and the glacial maximum 20,000 years ago, Earth's oceans lost about 400 feet in depth.
Yup, it's not a coincidence. Heyerdahl said that the southern Pacific islands (which are relatively few for most of that expanse) were settled first from the east, because that's the direction of the current, and anywhere there are pre-modern artifacts and such, the Polynesian strata are always atop whatever came first.
The Humboldt current (seems like we had a topic related to this lately) led to navigation eastward on the north end, and based on the widely variant cultures, genes, and language families (not to mention two coastlines and a much more narrow Atlantic on the east) the Americas were settled over and over -- just as the rest of the Earth has been.
And it varied with latitude.
Hah! But no, before crack head Hunter became a reprobate. These were tombs that had just been discovered, unopened. Also some jade artifacts that came from South America.
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