[Stones] bronze age ale

[Ric]

Hi Nancy,

yes, it is intriguing, the NE Coast, Woodland Indians
apparently took what they wanted from cultural
contacts South, ie maize - and rejected what they
didn't want, for example, metal working? they just
didn't need that technology, their
['stoneage']arboreal environment gave them everything
else they needed?

Ric


--- The Wissers <wissers3 at enter.net> wrote:

> 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.