Re: maize in ancient india: strong transpacific links are indicated
Paul J. Gans (gans@scholar.nyu.edu)
6 Jan 1997 02:13:56 GMT
Yuri Kuchinsky (yuku@io.org) wrote:
: Carolyn S Hoff (c1hoff@mt1047.mcdo.mt.blm.gov) wrote:
:
: : why is it that this sculpture is assumed to be zea maize? it could be
: any number of grasses represented in an "oversized" fashion to compensate
: for limitations imposed by carving on stone.
:
: Carrie,
:
: You misunderstand. In fact there are _hundreds_ of such carvings out
: there, in those temples. So the possibility of misidentification is
: significantly diminished...
:
: Best,
:
: Yuri.
There are significant numbers of carvings of pineapples in
medieval churches too. And pineapples were not known in
Europe until modern times.
Of course, they *could* be carvings of something else, but
to me they look like pineapples and there are so many of them
so they must be pineapples.
------ Paul J. Gans [gans@scholar.chem.nyu.edu]
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