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Re: Indologist confirms maize in ancient sculptures

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From: Yuri Kuchinsky
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:00
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Hu McCulloch (mcculloch.2@osu.edu) wrote on Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:11:04 GMT:
: Oscar Schlaf writes,

: >  Jett & Carter, the first two historians outside of India to suggest
: >Pre-Colubmian Maize in India, only identified the the statues at
: >Somnathpur as Maize, and actually dismissed others.  I guess parker &
: >Johanssessen went back and accepted what the other two dismissed.

: I spoke to Stephen Jett at UC Davis today.  He is quite familiar with 
: Johannessen's work, and does _not_ dismiss any of Johannessen's 
: maize sculpture identifications.   Oscar is flat wrong here. 

Schlaff is primarily an entertainer, Hu. He will come up with any old
bogosity just to get a few laughs...

Yuri.

Yuri Kuchinsky -=O=- http://www.globalserve.net/~yuku

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that nature replaces it with -=O=- Tennessee Williams
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From: yuku@globalserve.net (Yuri Kuchinsky)
Subject: Re: Indologist confirms maize in ancient sculptures
Date: 1998/10/27
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