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Donna Mcmaster (mcmaster@news.msus.edu) wrote:
: Yuri Kuchinsky (yuku@mail.trends.ca) wrote:

: 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? 

Dear Donna,

"Have any been described"? Good question. So many things need to be done
in order to cast more light on these theories. Sure. But you have to
realize how difficult progress has been in this area. Funding is very hard
to come by for these controversial projects. Publishing this research has
been very tought. I'm in touch with Johannessen and he's been telling me
about "the inside story". 

: 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.....

Of course. Right now we seem to be very close to removing all doubts about
precolumbian Old World maze. I understand DNA testing of this unique Old
World maize can do this, but even getting labs to test existing samples
has been difficult. 

Can you believe that classification of the many varieties of Old World
maze has not been done yet? Mainstream scholars simply don't care! When
will they see how important this work is for determining the history of
humankind?

Best regards,

Yuri.

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