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Interesting Video on prehistoric earth ovens

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D. Tiller:

--- Quote from: jamie on February 28, 2008, 08:17:05 pm ---that was cool. one statement i found wierd was when she said they would cook all the food for transport to the winter village. why precook so much food for storage. it would foul quicker , dont ya think. but she was really pretty so i pretty much forgot what happened the rest of the video ;D

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Root crops are a bit different than meat animals. You have to cook these ones to get the vital sugers coneverted from inedible to an edible type. Also, they probably only cooked them there and then further dried them and ground them up into flour that would be lighter to transport. Trust me bitter root and cammas eaten raw would be a very bad experience! Bitter is bitter untill cooked and raw cammas, when you are not used to it, can give one Montazumas revenge!

David T

cowboy:
I took a look at that Dave - interesting! I've always had an interest in digging around in the dirt and picking up fossils and neat looking rocks since I was kneehigh to a chigger ;D. I noticed those gals in the first few clips - this aircard made me wait a good thirty minutes before I could watch the whole thing ::).

D. Tiller:
Yeah! I have been on a few Archy. digs while getting my degree in Anthro. though the sites where I was where not as nice.  Snake river OR, they where not kidding when they called it Snake! Should have named it more like Snakes river!!!!  The other was next to a sewage treatment plane.  :'(

Now I just make soap for a living! Wonder if the sewage plant forced me in this direction?

David T

snedeker:
David

Ah, yes.  One of my associates here, an archaeologist with western experience, informed me that these were dried.  She says they must have had to roam over a pretty big area to get that much root, its not typically that concentrated?  I bet this was a women's activity, or maybe something done when multiple groups got together, probably combined with a festival and maybe to trade marrieage partners.

Dave

D. Tiller:
snedeker, In the Palouse region and down south through OR there are some really concentrated areas of Camas roots and other wild tubers that grow in prodigious amounts. Its just dependent on the time of the year. Most of the nutrition that the Native Americans lived on came from these wild foods. Now that there are cattle and other destructive critters running around many of these wild edibles are much more rare. Too bad! Really nutritious stuff!

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