Nah. There's an annual Mullet Toss at the Flora-Bama Beach Bar every year. Unfortunately, hurricane Ivan blew away the original and famous bar, see below. Also, I expect hurricane Katrina blew away the rebuilding of that bar.
Posted on 09/17/2005 7:05:56 PM PDT by blam
China Exclusive: Chinese archaeologists discover world earliest millets
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-09-02 16:14
Chinese archaeologists have recently found the world earliest millets, dated back to about 8,000 years ago, on the grassland in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
A large number of carbonized millets have been discovered by Chinese archaeologists at the Xinglonggou relics site in Chifeng City.
The discovery has changed the traditional opinion that millet, the staple food in ancient north China, originated in the Yellow River valley, Zhao Zhijun, a researcher with the Archaeology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told Xinhua on Friday.
Carbon-14 dating shows that the millets were from 8,000 to 7,500 years ago. The ancient millets still keep some features of wildness, said Zhao.
Archaeological discoveries show that the main cereals, including wheat, barley, rice and maize all originated 10,000 to 8,000 years ago.
"The new discovery indicates that millet was no exception," said Zhao.
He said that China has two centers of agricultural origin. The southern region had rice as the main crop and the northern region had millet as the main crop.
Academic circles both at home and abroad have conducted in-depth research into the origin of rice in recent years. But the origin of north China's dry-farming has not been paid enough attention by researchers, said Zhao.
However, archaeologists from Britain and Canada have shown great interest in the new discovery.
"The research into millet is becoming a new focus of archaeology," said Zhao.
He explained that many experts believe research into the origin and spread of millet may shed new light on exchanges between the ancient civilizations in the east and west.
It is a shared opinion that the exchanges between the east and west should be dated back to a time much earlier than the "Silk Road", a trading route between Asia and Europe about 2,000 years ago.
Some experts have found evidence that an ancient tribe nomadically traversed the vast Eurasian grassland about 10,000 to 8,000 years ago, helping to promote exchanges between the ancient civilizations in the east and west.
Millets were mainly distributed at the southern areas of the Eurasian grassland in ancient times. The new millet discoveries were located at the east end of the Eurasian grassland, said Zhao.
Archaeologists hope to use these new findings to illuminate the origin and transmission pathways of millets, Zhao added.
Not rice? Unthinkable.
Chinese archaeologists find the earliest known ancestors of Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875), the French painter, and of Lluis Millet (1867-1941), the Catalan composer.
That pic is SO funny! Who is that in the background? Tourist guy as a child?
Nah. There's an annual Mullet Toss at the Flora-Bama Beach Bar every year. Unfortunately, hurricane Ivan blew away the original and famous bar, see below. Also, I expect hurricane Katrina blew away the rebuilding of that bar.
And here I always thought it was "The Outer Millets." (Please stand by).
Well, blam --- I'M taking it seriously and with interest!
That puts it back a couple thousand more years than the millet in the Banpo site in Xi'An. (I guess Xi-An is considered the Yellow River Valley)
What culture and ancient period would that be, I wonder.
Ha that place was built out of PVC pipe and plastic tarps. I don't think they had a refrigerator later than the 1970's. It can be rebuilt in a few hours.
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Archaeological discoveries show that the main cereals, including wheat, barley, rice and maize all originated 10,000 to 8,000 years ago.Actually, that's not true. Multirow barley (the cultivated kind) goes back at least 14,000 years (non-calibrated RC date, so the actual figure is higher).
The ancient Nefilim myths? Naw.
History news from China recently makes them sound like they're up to their old tricks again. Everything is earliest this, oldest that and the first of the other.
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