Dear Lisa,

I would like your diagram of medit. diet.  Also, exactly what bean species
do you mean that came from Asia?

thanks

Christine Hastorf


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Lisa French <
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>
> Fun but it is Ottoman/modern.
>
> Years ago when we were working in Turkey with all the archaeobotanists we
> started tracing when the South American foods arrived there - from Spain
> via North Africa.  The earliest we found was 1581 (Busbeq's trip to
> Amasia).  I also heard from Colin Leakey (who among other things advised
> Heinz about beans) that beans probably reached the west across Asia.
>
> I would love to hear what the latest data is on all this.
>
> I tried with Sibby Postgate to reconstruct the Bronze Age diet in a
> diagram based on an advert for olive oil margarine lauding the
> Mediterranean diet. We got it as accurate as we could in 2002.  I can send
> it to anyone who would like it as a pdf attachmet..
>
> Lisa French
>
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