[Sca-cooks] Peanuts

Martha Sieting osermart at msu.edu
Wed Dec 30 13:33:24 PST 2009


There's also a cool necklace of gold and silver peanut-shaped beads from the tomb of the so-called "Lord of Sipan" that was excavated in the 1980s.

http://www.mcguinnessonline.com/gold/sipan.htm

Not the most scholarly site, but at least it has good pictures.

-Helena

> That is so interesting! I also thought peanuts were from Africa!
>
> Wikipedia has a cool Peruvian artifact of a peanut dating from 300AD.
>
> Thank you for this information!
>
> Madhavi



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