[Sca-cooks] Another, older, banana found in London
Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
Thu Jul 15 07:31:40 PDT 2010
Quoting:
>The poster on the Calontir list makes the error of assuming the
>plantain was deposited in the mid-15th Century. The site is a midden
>which, IIRC, was a fish market with live tanks, that was abandoned in
>the 15th Century and became a trash dump. The plantain was located at
>a level of the midden placing it in the early to middle 16th Century
>and it was determined not to be a more modern intrusive artifact.
Are the people remembering that the mid-15th century is around 1450 and
not 1550? For modern Americans, using centuries rather than years can
be very confusing. It's not really taught in schools nowadays.
Alys K.
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