SC - egg sizes

[Christi Rigby]

>From: LrdRas at aol.com
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>Subject: Re: SC - Cranberries and Lingonberry Jamup (long)
>Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 08:06:46 EST
>
>In a message dated 12/14/99 12:22:41 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>ringofkings at mindspring.com writes:
>
><<  I thought that the native American Indians
>  never progressed beyond the STONE age. >>
>
>I would suggest an extensive study of American Indian cultures and >you may 
>be surprised when you have to  rethink the above statement. >Indian 
>cultures on the East and West coasts were very advanced lived >in towns 
>with buildings, practiced advanced agricultural techniques, >had highly 
>developed languages and sophisticated systems of law and >government, many 
>of which were far more advanced than their European >counterparts. The 
>technology may have been more advanced in Europe >but that is about the it 
>of European advancement when compared to >Native Americans.
>

Actually, you're both completely correct. "Stone Age" and "Iron Age" are a 
measure of technology ONLY, not a comment on how advanced a particular 
society is in terms of cultural and political constructs.

So yes, the Native (North) American societies did not progress beyond the 
stone age before European contact, but (some, not all) still had complex 
societies with extremely progressive governmental systems.  (Anyone who 
finds themselves in Farmington, NM with nothing to do should check out the 
Anasazi ruins. VERY cool.)

ANYway, while the Iroquois supplied the Founding Fathers with a good chunk 
of the basis for the Constitution, they were REALLY not likely to have shown 
the Pilgrims how to boil corn in large iron cauldrons.

(And especially not with butter.  There's an interesting Saga about the 
Viking first contact with the Native Americans... there's some conflicting 
stories, but the upshot of one of them is that the Vikings gave the Native 
Americans some milk, and were chased out of the area the next day when the 
most-likely-lactose-intolerant Native Americans (who had spent the night in 
serious gastric distress) had thought they'd been poisoned.)

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