Remains Of Oldest Fruit Trees In Iberian Peninsula Found

Arch News ^ | Friday, January 14, 2011 | Stephen Russell

[SunkenCiv]

This research has enabled the recording of numerous fleshy fruits such as plums of various types, cherries, peaches, sloes, grapes, apples, figs, quince and medlar and, in a token manner, olives. The overall collection of nuts is interesting, significant being the presence of hazel nuts, acorns, walnuts, pine kernels and, sporadically, beechnuts. As regards cereals, wheat, barley and oats have been identified. Also of particular important are the various seeds of the bottle (or calabash) gourd, a species of water pumpkin, very rarely recorded in archaeological contexts.

[SunkenCiv]

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[bunkerhill7]

Juan Appleseed

[bigheadfred]

Medieval covers roughly a thousand year spread. Where are we here?

Now if they were to mention that the Basques brought a large variety of fruits and nuts and even brocolli and brussel sprouts to the Iberian Peninsula when they fled the destruction of Atlantis and they have found the oldest known remnants of that agronomical extravagance we would have something.

[TexasTransplant]

Bookmark

[married21]

The Basques came from Atlantis?

[blam]

You can never know:

The Relationship Between The Basque And Ainu

[blam]

This is my present choice for the location of Atlantis:

Where Was Atlantis? Sundaland Fits The Bill, Surely!

[gleeaikin]

I thought Sundaland was supposed to be the continent of Mu.

[colorado tanker]

Another fleshy fruit of Spain . . . Paz Vega.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh yeah, forgot about her, we dated last year. For a short time. I dumped her.

[colorado tanker]

She ate tapas in bed?

[SunkenCiv]

I wonder what Mrs. Tapas thought about that.

[colorado tanker]

:-))