In a message dated 20/08/2014 11:48:00 GMT Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: 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] (mailto:[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=NzM1NDk1IGhhc3RvcmZAQkVS S0VMRVkuRURVIEFOQ0lFTlQtRk9PRC1URUNIIOGiRjxUcbBG&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: _http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM1NDk1IGxpc2FjYW1iQEF PTC5DT00gQU5DSUVOVC1GT09ELVRFQ0ggIIj8a9CZ7Ui%2F&c=SIGNOFF_ (http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?TICKET=NzM1NDk1IGxpc2FjYW1iQEFPTC5DT00gQU5DSUVO VC1GT09ELVRFQ0ggIIj8a9CZ7Ui/&c=SIGNOFF) ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH list, click the following link: https://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ANCIENT-FOOD-TECH