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Skriven 2009-05-19 10:17:00 av Glen Jamieson
     Kommentar till en text av Carol Shenkenberger
Ärende: WILD SHEEP  90519
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 -=> Quoting Carol Shenkenberger to Glen Jamieson <=-

You are catching up.  This was only about 5 weeks old.  (g)
    
 >  GJ>   I am surprised that wild sheep inhabited that part of USA, as
 >  GJ> I have never read of them being part of the traditional diet of the
 >  GJ> original inhabitants.  I thought they were a Eurasian animal.

 CS> Lots of oddities.  Horses developed here, spread to Asia and Europe,
 CS> then died out here only returning with the European settlers.  They run
 CS> wild here now and are not endangered at all.

According to the movies the indigenous Americans readily took to using
horses for warfare and general transport.
 
 >  DD> "native Americans" who displaced the proto-humans who had the run of
 >  DD> the place up until then.
 > What happened to these "proto-humans"?  Are there any remains which

 CS> Actually the American continents (north and south) never had
 CS> 'proto-humans'. There is some debate on just when men came here but
 CS> most top out at earliest of 15,000 years even on the most radical side.
 CS> 13,000 seems generally accepted.  Well into the 'homo sapiens sapiens'

That sounds logical.

 CS> Yes, we have 'new world monkeys' here native.  Mostly seen in lower
 CS> mexico through south america.  Ours have prehensile tails (old world
 CS> ones dont). 

Something I didn't know!  Whenever I see a monkey I will have to see
how he uses his tail, so I know where he comes from.  :)

 CS> Geologically, OZ separated well before the Americas from 'Pangea' but
 CS> we seem to be pretty much next after it when you get to larger land
 CS> masses.  Unlike OZ, we've had a sporadic land channel for a very long
 CS> time though so it's not as obvious.  Mammals won here for example. 
 CS> South American before it joined wi 
 CS> th North America was noted for marsupials, most of which subsumed to
 CS> mammals over time but we have some of the remaining ones that arent of
 CS> OZ origin.  (Possum pie anyone?).

The later mammals were more intelligent and more aggressive than most
marsupials, and so took over from them, except in Australia and New
Guinea.  The possums are much better survivors than the other
marsupials, and so have remained in America.  Their introduction to
New Zealand has resulted in them taking over from the native wildlife
in the same way as introduced foxes and other European animals have
multiplied here, to the detriment of the locals.  (One could include
humans in that statement...)

 CS> How did Man get here?  It's still under debate but logistically it may
 CS> well have come from 3 places with a possible 4th.  Bering Straits and
 CS> the snow-line arctic Inuit, sea going polynesians (same group as OZ),
 CS> and Europe across Greenland-Iceland route to Canada.  During some times
 CS> that route from Europe would have been fairly small hops.
 CS> Some evidence leads well to Bering straights and man moving down from
 CS> there and other evidence seems to indicate dual settlement of
 CS> polynesian in south america, and Asian/European in North which met and
 CS> blended in middle america roughly.

Perhaps one of these days we will know all the whens and wheres of
migrations around the world.  In the meantime, there is plenty to keep
anthropologists busy speculating and investigating.

 CS> The only thing certain here in the Americas, is they came in waves.

That seems to have been the pattern in other countries as well, with
the migrations driven by wars, famines, climate changes or government
policy (such as the Spanish Catholic Kings - Ferdinand and Isabela -
and Hitler driving out the Jews).  And as you know, that Isabela was
the one who backed young Colon in his mad idea of finding a short cut
to the East Indies, and look what that led to - you!

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      Title: What Is Creole? [Louisiana]
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  New Orleans, Louisiana is the dining capital of the United States and
  a unique culinary destination in all the world. We can't wait to
  share our Creole and Cajun cooking with you, and we offer the
  following bits of history and lore to help you enjoy your meals with
  us even more.
  
  Though cuisines are often born in strange and wondrous ways, it is
  doubtful that any other than Creole got its start because housewives
  threatened a governor with cast-iron pots and pans.
  
  In 1722, in what became known as the "Petticoat Rebellion", about
  fifty young wives marched on Governor Bienville's mansion in New
  Orleans, pounding their frying pans with metal spoons and protesting
  their dreary diet of cornmeal mush.
  
  With a dash of admirable dexterity, Bienville put the women in touch
  with his own housekeeper, a certain Madame Langlois, who had learned
  more than a few secrets from the local Choctaw Indians.
  
  It was she who calmed the angry wives by teaching them how to use
  powdered sassafras for flavor in gumbo, how to make hominy grits, how
  to get the most from the region's abundant fish and game. From this
  education, a tempering of French tradition with Indian pragmatism,
  Creole cooking was born.
  
  Despite a Creole passion for bloodlines, generations of alliances
  legal and otherwise added more tangles to the web that produced their
  cuisine. To French, Spanish and African roots, successive waves of
  immigrants contributed fascinating touches from Italy, Germany, even
  Croatia.
  
  Source: Visitor: The Insider's Guide To Lovin' New Orleans, June 1998
    Typos by Dorothy Flatman 1998
 
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