SC - The horse in medieval agriculture (long)

[Stefan li Rous]

At 7:10 AM -0500 12/18/99, cclark at vicon.net wrote:
>Mordonna the Cook wrote:
> > ... Unless there were Jewish settlers in the New World prior to Columbus.
>
>Funny that you should mention that. There was an article in _The Atlantic
>Monthly_ this month about re-examining the evidence of pre-Columbian voyages
>to the Americas. One bit of evidence cited was some brass bracelets that
>were found buried in Tennesee. They are supposed to be in a style that comes
>from the Mediterranean region almost 2000 years ago, and were accompanied by
>a stone inscribed with the words "for Judea" in Hebrew writing of that
>period. The Diaspora may have gone farther than we thought.
>
>This group might have died or been assimilated before the beginning of our
>period. But in the meantime, where did they get their oil? Peanuts? Pecans?
>Not bear grease; that's not kosher is it? And would they have been more
>likely to invent potato latkes or hushpuppies? :-)

Were Potatoes being cultivated in Tennessee that early? My vague 
memory, I think from something in _Guns, Germs and Steel_, is that 
the South American food plants moved north very slowly.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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