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 | | From: | benlizross | | Subject: | Re: 36 American plants in the Pacific basin | | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:18:44 +1300 |
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 | qiwi wrote:
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> Peter Metcalfe wrote:
> > In article , Teauai@xtra.co.nz
> says...
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> > > There was contact betweem Maori and Machu Pichu.
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> > Nonsense. If there was contact, then the Maori would have knowledge
> > of Bronze working, pottery, Guinea pigs, Quipu knot-writing, Gold and
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> > Copper artefacts and Llamas from the Incas and perhaps Rongo-rongo
> from
> > Rapa Nui.
> > --Peter Metcalfe
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> If there was contact??
> Extremely unlikely I would say considering that the Inca hadn't even
> begun their expansion from the Cuzco Valley until the early 15th
> century.
> Of course by that time the Kumara, carrying it's Peruvian name with it,
> had long been present in Polynesia and was even present in Aotearoa.
> If the ancestors of the Polynesians weren't originally from South
> America then any later contact would have been with the Aymara or
> possibly even the Uru or Taranga people of the Titcaca region.
Another Undead Thread. Peter Metcalfe's post is dated Nov.1 1999.
Ross Clark
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