From: e.karloukovski@uea.ac.uk (Vassil Karloukovski)
Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars
Date: 2 Feb 1999 18:24:28 GMT
Organization: University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

In article <36B6632D.59F691F0@montclair.edu>, hubeyh@montclair.edu says...

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>> > "...grain, which is quite bad, black and stinking, and they don't have rooms
>> > for storing their grain. They dig wells and bury the food there. In several
>> > days time it is spoiled, it changes its taste, becomes smelly and cannot be
>> > used anymore."
>
>They must have all starved that year :-)


On the contrary! Eating mouldy grain gave them an advantage over the neighbouring
tribes as it made them less susceptible to cholera. :-))


Regards,
Vassil K.

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>Best Regards,
>Mark
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