Drifters Could Explain Sweet-Potato Travel

Nature ^ | 5-18-2007

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Violence Is Blamed On 'Warrior Gene' In The Maoris

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Maori Men And Women From Different Homelands

[Fred Nerks]

the cannibal polynesians apprehended the South American voyagers, stole their boat, ate the sailors, planted the potatoes?

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"The cannibal polynesians apprehended the South American voyagers, stole their boat, ate the sailors, planted the potatoes?"

Could be.

[Yardstick]

Intercontinental yam cannon.

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Evidence Of Tunguska-Type Impacts Over The Pacific Basin Around The Year 1178 AD

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Nah. The potato, all 2,000 varieties, are native to South America...no one questions that. The question is how they got to the Pacific Islands.

Nobody questions it because it is “conventional wisdom”. Just like the earth being flat was once “conventional wisdom”. Aside from discovering gold and gems, the South American natives didn’t seem to do too much to advance their civilization beyond their jungles.

They were certainly no match for the Spaniards. So I doubt they did anything nearly so brilliant as invent potatoes: far less export them to the South Pacific.

(Could they even swim? Where are the Inca war canoes? The Mayan navy? The Aztec Flotilla? Naw, these lot were all Land-Lubbers!)

I can confidently assert that the Spaniard conquistadors would not have been able to knock over the Maori the way they knocked over the Aztecs, the Maya and the Incas. The conquistadors would have been yum-yum-yummy in the Maori tum-tum-tummy, and they would have had the unpleasant side-effect of introducing Maori to firearms and light armor 300 years before they gottem off the British. History would surely have been re-written if that were the case.

Nope — I propose that until proven otherwise the Maori invented Kumara and brought ‘em to South America.

[Fred Nerks]

thanks for the link, that should keep me quiet for a little while...

btw, I've got a theory that answers everything!

(Wait for it.)

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Continental Drift is BS. Here's what really happened. Explains the potato story and a whole lot more.

[Little Ray]

I’d agree, except for one thing - if the Maoris visited South America, they would have left a lasting impression on the locals...

[Pyro7480]

Huh? What is that animation supposed to be?

[colorado tanker]

The idea that sweet potatoes just drifted across the Pacific and landed by chance on a Polynesian beach strikes me as much less probable than man having a hand in the navigation. Could one even grow after being soaked in brine for so long?

[DieHard the Hunter]

> I’d agree, except for one thing - if the Maoris visited South America, they would have left a lasting impression on the locals...

(grin!) like being the Inca version of The Boogey Man? It’s plausible...

“Eat up all your kumara, Jonny, or the Maori will get ya!”

A Maori warrior with a full-on facial moko (tattoo) looks about as Heathen and frightening as one could possibly imagine. Certainly enough to scare the crap out of Inca kids misbehaving.

[Fred Nerks]

http://microlnx.com/expansion/

;-)

[SunkenCiv]

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