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Re: Tobacco & Coca, perfect for trade
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 5:10 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
circumspice wrote:Cocaine is a much later development.
Excavations at Caral have unearthed actual coke, used coke pipes and chemicals for making/refining cocaïne. 4,000 to 4,600 years old. The Phoenicians discovered it and started shipping it and trading in it only a few centuries later. As they did tobacco.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3objRWDOE4
Opium and cannabis came from the east. From Afghanistan and central Asia. Around the same time. Indian and/or Chinese sailors/traders are the suspects to get those 'spices' to Egypt.
Re: Shekel found in MA coast mud
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 6:06 pm
by Minimalist
Excavations at Caral have unearthed actual coke, used coke pipes and chemicals for making/refining cocaïne.
Are you sure that wasn't the leftovers from the excavators' TGIF party?
Re: Shekel found in MA coast mud
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2010 7:44 pm
by Rokcet Scientist
Minimalist wrote:
Excavations at Caral have unearthed actual coke, used coke pipes and chemicals for making/refining cocaïne.
Are you sure that wasn't the leftovers from the excavators' TGIF party?
You saw the video! It actually probably was, considering Caral homes were partially dug out. OTOH, their combination of coke, irrigation, cotton growing, fishnet manufacturing and trading for fish, proteins,
did magically coincide with a long, peaceful, and affluent stretch in their history!
Odd, isn't it?
Re: Shekel found in MA coast mud
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2010 10:17 am
by uniface
I agree with you that it is too bad that ancient coins are found by treasure hunters and amateurs (and housewives and children and chickens) instead of by scholars, but who else is going to find them? If they are authentic, they just are where they are, and found by accident. It is not at all logical to think that a professional archaeologist or anthropologist or numismatist or historian could set out to find one and succeed. Where in God's millions of square miles would he pick to hunt? And if by chance he did find one, then who would say he did not plant it?
It goes on to list quite a number of similar discoveries.
http://www.gloriafarley.com/chap11.htm