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Article #1007Re: ancient corn
From: Donna Mcmaster
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 00:00
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Yuri Kuchinsky (yuku@mail.trends.ca) wrote: snip, snip, snip, a whole lot of stuff Well, Yuri, I have been watching this debate for some time now from the sidelines, and I have a question I would like you to answer: With all the current work on opal phytolyths, which in the America are now about getting to determining the varietal level of corn, have any been described from the places you claim corn appeared? After all, when possible this is something archaeologists are doing on a regular basis -- getting the insides of a few pots scanned for those teeny, tiny microsopic residues of the silica bodies which plants develop and which can be identified. You can fight and argue all you want, but in the end the evidence will determine..... Donna McMaster Moorhead State University Moorhead, Minnesota WIth one heck of an archaeology program, I'm delighted to say....
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d8cb,85febcd8fcc4c50a X-Google-Attributes: gid10d8cb,public X-Google-Thread: 1129f3,1c81512f02aad245 X-Google-Attributes: gid1129f3,public X-Google-Thread: 1119a6,7503aac6e31c2316 X-Google-Attributes: gid1119a6,public From: mcmaster@news.msus.edu (Donna Mcmaster) Subject: Re: ancient corn Date: 1997/06/10 Message-ID: <5nkkpn$tmu$1@Urvile.MSUS.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 247581542 References: <33976e9b.153507136@nntp.netcomuk.co.uk> <5naddb$5lk$1@trends.ca> <havAMMACVYmzEwg5@myates.demon.co.uk> <5nc2ik$du2$1@trends.ca> <5ndi8a$3e2$13@news.nyu.edu> <5nebid$kq$2@trends.ca> <865826607.15057@dejanews.com> <5nhblj$cla$2@trends.ca> Organization: Minesota Colleges and Universities Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.archaeology.mesoamerican,bionet.general