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 < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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 > > . . > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH list, click the following link: > > http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM1NDk1IGhhc3RvcmZAQkVSS0VMRVkuRURVIEFOQ0lFTlQtRk9PRC1URUNIIOGiRjxUcbBG&c=SIGNOFF > -- Christine Hastorf Department of Anthropology 232 Kroeber Hall University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA, USA 94720-3710 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH list, click the following link: https://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH