[CH] Re: Chiles in Africa 2
Myron Menaker (myronm@bellsouth.net)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:22:35 -0400
Well, if one believes what the Kon-Tiki expedition purportedly proved;
i.e., that early South Americans navigated the Pacific from east to
west, it's not much of a stretch to extrapolate that the peppers
continued leap-frogging the Pacific until they reached the Asian
mainland. Voila---South America-to-India!
Myron
Peter Moss wrote:
> Pepper use in South America can be dated to 7000 BC [B.
> Pickersgill]. The domesticated species had their centre of
> origin as South America. If accounts of peppers in
> continents other than South/North America are true. All we have
> to do is figure out how they made the intercontinental trip.
>
> If Indian, Arab and Israelite traders had peppers prior to
> Columbus (ca 1493) and King Solomon reigned 974 BC..937 BC.
> Then the normal mode of transport assumed to be available at the
> the time, might just not be suitable for this trip.
>
> Conventional thinking may no longer apply. This in itself is
> not strange or even unusual as there are many unsolved mysteries.
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