At 02:56 PM 4/21/01 -0500, Stacie Tolen wrote:
>I agree that the "New World foods were only recently added to the human
>diet" standpoint feels very eurocentric.
>

Huh.  I thought it was a more "eastern-hemisphere-centric" in that folks
thought of new world and old world in terms of that same
lower-paleolithic/end of human evolution time frame...  In which case
Europe would almost be "new world"...

>Why scientists insist on figuring out where, when, how, why and *who*
> first immigrated to the Americas is beyond me.

Me, too :)

Dianne
who doesn't apply that particular criteria herself, though...