[Sca-cooks] pre-Columbian foods

[margali]

Actually what offends me the most is the common acceptance of the 
building of a cathedral taking a similar amount of time over 20 or 30 
years [just a figure that i vaguely remember reading that several major 
cathedrals took about that long to complete...] and of course it was due 
to the faith of the europeans being 'brought forth in stone' and yet 
whenever they seem to mention some of the neolithic monuments [malta, 
ireland, teochtitlan, the great medicine wheel, any number of stone 
geometrc forms....ad nausea] and the wondering how the priests could 
have deluded that many people into spending the resources to make 
whatever structure ... or what would have made the population build such 
a structure...yatta yatta yatta.

Sheesh, cant a *nonchristian* have faith too? Cant a *nonchristian* want 
to demonstrate their faith or thanks .... Not that big a difference 
between some english peasant giving the church a carving as thanks for a 
good harvest, safe childbirth or whatever, and some mayan going and 
bleeding to feed the gods...or a jewish tribesman sacrificing a dove at 
the temple in jerusalem...
margali

Edouard de Bruyerecourt wrote:
> [slipping on my anthropological pith helmet...]

> Mathwise, if would take 325 men (or just adults) about two years to 
> contribute 200k 'man' hours if they just provided an hour a day, six 
> days a week.
  <snip>
> Something I've noted over time is modern Western world humans tend to 
> grossly underestimate the skill, physical and mental abilites, and 
> mental ingenuity of 'primative' societies.