🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <70g1b0$7pu$1@whisper.globalserve.net>,
  yuku@globalserve.net (Yuri Kuchinsky) wrote:
> bakula@my-dejanews.com wrote on Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:46:32 GMT:
> : In article <hmccullo.44.362A3957@pop.service.ohio-state.edu>,
> :   hmccullo@pop.service.ohio-state.edu (Hu McCulloch) wrote:
>
> : > Custard apple is one of the other New World crops Gupta
> : > finds in Pre-Columbian temple sculptures, so if this is what
> : > is depicted, it would equally indicate some transoceanic
> : > contacts.  Nevertheless, the sculptures Gupta and Johannessen
> : > show look much more like maize than custard apple.
> : > (see eg the one I link on my page,
> : >   <http://economics.sbs.ohio-state.edu/jhm/arch/maize.html> )
>
> : My dear Hu,
>
> : I am not taking any side on this argument. I came late on the scene. Knowing
> : Indian penchant for stretching the truth
>
> [snip yet more racist comments]
>
> I regret to descend to the gutter with you by answering this post, but
> does the name Johannessen (the leading recent researcher of precolumbian
> Asian maize) sound Hindu to you?

 Johannessen isn't the leading researcher. He isn't a historian & he isn't an
agro-biologist.  He has degrees in Zoologoy & Geography.  And Maize isn't a
animal or location.....

  Try  P.C. Mangelsdorf, Edgar Anderson, or  R. Tirumalai, people who have
actual training in the subject at had.


                                           ---Oscar Schlaf---



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