[Stones] bronze age ale

[The Wissers]

Similarly to here, where rarely do you hear it discussed that maize and 
tobacco, found everywhere when Europeans arrived, are tropical or at 
least semi-tropical plants that cannot tolerate freezing, and that not 
only must they have been traded north from Mexico in the case of maize 
and possibly as far as Peru in the case of tobacco, but every group must 
have had some traditional way to keep the seeds from freezing all 
winter. I'm sure there are specialists in the botany of ancient 
cultures, but I'm surprised these things aren't discussed more in 
general information about the cultures, interesting and telling as they are.

Ric wrote:

>no worries,
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>the whole question is interesting: beer and cereals
>travelling up from Sumeria and possibly Ancient Egypt
>/ North Africa ... it just goes to show nothing
>happened in cultural isolation: there is a big story
>here, which has yet to be told?
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