are we talking about the ‘typical’ lowly sweet potato here ?
mmmmmm sweet potatoes with melted butter and brown sugar please...
My brother who is diabetic and has done a lot of research on foods safe for diabetics, says the sweet potato is about the closest thing to a perfect food one can eat.
This article is at least 20 years out of date. There is co0nclusive proof that Europeans settled in America between 13,000 and 11,000 years ago, bringing with them the Clovis Point. The same technology is found in Spain and France from the same period.
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Thanks Blam.The one convincing piece of evidence for pre-Hispanic contact has been the humble sweet potato, which is of tropical American origin but widely cultivated across the Pacific islands. Until a few years ago it was assumed that this was the result of Spanish transmission, dating to the early colonial period, but archaeological discoveries in the Cook Islands show this to be wrong: excavations at Mangaia yielded carbonised remains of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) dating to AD1000, five centuries before Europeans entered the Pacific Ocean. The question then arose as to whether the diffusion of this useful crop was the result of Amerindians sailing west to Polynesia, as the late Thor Heyerdahl always claimed,end. ;') |
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