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SL Cabbie
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Date: November 17, 2014 05:07PM
I know just enough about the development of Native American agriculture that I threw up over this claim. After that, I struggled to unravel the hodge-podge of facts and folklore interwoven in this one.
>Cherokees developed and cultivated corn, beans...
Corn (maize) was developed in Mesoamerica from teosinte, a wild grass that grows in that area. Knowledge of its cultivation spread northward and eastward
http://maize.uga.edu/index.php?loc=ancestorsSimilarly, beans were first domesticated in Mexico and South America.
http://archaeology.about.com/od/bcthroughbl/qt/Bean-History.htmOn the "Cherokee Front," post-Columbian admixture easily accounts for all of the mtDNA haplogroups identified among the individuals tested.
The article linked states:
>At present, the researchers at DNA Consultants seem unaware that throughout the 1600s Iberian Sephardic Jews and Moorish Conversos colonized the North Carolina and Georgia Mountains, where they mined and worked gold and silver. All European maps show western North Carolina occupied by Apalache, Creek, Shawnee and Yuchi Indians until 1718. Most of these indigenous tribal groups were forced out in the early 1700s. Anglo-American settlers moving into northeastern Tennessee and extreme southwestern Virginia mentioned seeing Jewish speaking villages in that region until around 1800.
That's interesting because several of us have encountered LDS apologists quoting Adair. I expect we'll see more of that.