S. American Apple Seeds Discovered in Ancient India Sites

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Full article reveals many other evidences of other seeds and grains that prove Pre-Columbian interactions between the Americas and the rest of the world. This, along with the info regarding Indian chickens in the Pre-Columbian Americas and Indian tree resins and marine oils on the Egyptian mummies at Bolton University, are important because these evidences lay out the scientific basis for and the practical and functioning mechanisms that allowed for the ancient world's global Vedic presence. Vrndavan Parker http://www.ias. ac.in/currsci/ jan252008/ 248.pdfPaul and Carlos Aramayo: That was very interesting about the Custard Apple seeds found in ancient India. That tree with large hard shiny seeds is strictly Central and South American. Good evidence of ancient sea contact. Robin Day Ecuador Paul Kekai Manansala <p.manansala@ sbcglobal. net> wrote: Carlos Aramayo from the IndiaArchaeology alerted me to this article. Palaeoethnobotanica l record of cultivated crops and associated weeds and wild taxa from Neolithic site, Tokwa, Uttar Pradesh, India Anil K. Pokharia Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany, 53, University Road, Lucknow 226 007, India Investigation of botanical remains from an

ancient site, Tokwa at the confluence of Belan and Adwa rivers, Mirzapur District, Uttar Pradesh (UP), has brought to light the agriculture- based subsistence economy during the Neolithic culture (3rd–2nd millennium BC). They subsisted on cereals, viz. Oryza sativa, Triticum aestivum and Hordeum vulgare, supplemented by leguminous seeds of Lens culinaris, Pisum arvense and Vigna radiata. Evidence of oil-yielding crops has been documented by recovery of seeds of Linum usitatissimum and Brassica juncea. Fortuitously, an important find among the botanical remains is the seeds of South American custard apple, regarded to have been introduced by the Portuguese in the 16th century. The remains of custard apple as fruit coat and seeds have also been recorded from other sites in the Indian archaeological context, during the Kushana Period (AD 100–300) in Punjab and Early Iron Age (1300–700 BC) in UP. The

factual remains of custard apple, along with other stray finds discussed in the text, favour a group of specialists, supporting with diverse arguments, the reasoning of Asian–American contacts, before the discovery of America by Columbus in 1498. Further, a few weeds have turned up as an admixture in the crop remains." Full article at: http://www.ias. ac.in/currsci/ jan252008/ 248.pdf --- Regards, Paul Kekai Manansala Nusantao Maritime Trade Network and World History gymnogoy@ wrote: > > > > 5 days ago I watched a Discovery TV program about a Bolton > University (England) mummy. It was investigated using modern forensic > methods. The interesting part was the conclusion that the mixture for > coating the body was made of marine oils and the resin from a South >

Asian source. The chicken is a hybrid between the east Asian red jungle fowl and the > Indian grey jungle fowl (supposedly linked to Harappa). The > Polynesians (Tonga) drink kava-kava made from the Indian pepper plant > roots.

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