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>Charred cloves from the Moluccas (south of the Philippines) were recently found in in a jar in burnt-out remains of a 4000-year-old middle-class kitchen in Syr
by everdrive 7y ago
>Charred cloves from the Moluccas (south of the Philippines) were recently found in in a jar in burnt-out remains of a 4000-year-old middle-class kitchen in Syria.
This sounds amazing -- do you have a source for this?
- swampangel 7y agoSounds like: https://boroughmarket.org.uk/articles/the-spice-series-cinnamon-cassia-bark-and-cloves https://boroughmarket.org.uk/articles/the-spice-series-cinna... https://books.google.ca/books?id=SpmdDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT75&lpg=PT75&dq=Charred+cloves+from+the+Moluccas+in+syria&source=bl&ots=clgbMnffeS&sig=ACfU3U0jqXCmnLSGNyrILlVRIBWDycBvJg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjam9-MwpfnAhXjlOAKHYuoDQkQ6AEwDXoECA8QAQ#v=onepage&q=Charred%20cloves%20from%20the%20Moluccas%20in%20syria&f=false https://books.google.ca/books?id=SpmdDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT75&lpg=PT...
- n4r9 7y agoAccording to Wikipedia this is a misidentification (i.e. not actually a clove), based on the following sources: http://theconversation.com/worlds-oldest-clove-heres-what-our-find-in-sri-lanka-says-about-the-early-spice-trade-109686 http://theconversation.com/worlds-oldest-clove-heres-what-ou... https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/004382400409934 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/004382400409934