[Sca-cooks] Another, older, banana found in London

[Elise Fleming]

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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