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Re: maize in ancient india: strong transpacific links are indicated
Hu McCulloch (hmccullo@ecolan.sbs.ohio-state.edu)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:36:53 GMT
yuku@io.org (Yuri Kuchinsky) writes, concerning
>Carl L. Johannessen and Anne Z. Parker, MAIZE EARS SCULPTURED IN
>12TH AND 13TH CENTURY A.D. INDIA AS INDICATORS OF PRE-COLUMBIAN
>DIFFUSION, in Economic Botany, 1989, 43 (2): 164-180 ,
>These sorts of descriptions go on and on... But one picture is worth
>a thousand words... Take a look at these photos, you, the doubters
>out there! (In the future, I will try to scan some of these photos
>and to put them up on my webpage.)
Great idea, but don't bother with the B&Ws in the article. The grainy
reproduction process doesn't do the original photos justice. Try to
get some of the much more convincing color photos from Johannessen
or Parker. I think J is retired from the U. of Oregon, but perhaps
they can help you find him, or maybe he still lives in Eugene. Last
I heard he was trying to document sunflowers in Indian art of the same
period.
-- Hu McCulloch
Econ Dept
Ohio State U.
mcculloch.2@osu.edu
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