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Suppose your prior on whether or not there was communication between the Roman-era Mediterranean and America is 50-50. What's more likely, pineapples were know
by ingleswood 5y ago
Suppose your prior on whether or not there was communication between the Roman-era Mediterranean and America is 50-50.
What's more likely, pineapples were known in ancient Rome but there's only a single picture of one ever where the strange and exotic fruit isn't even foregrounded, and no mention in any written text ever? Or there's one mosaic among all preserved images and writings which has a weird anomalous representation of something European that could be interpreted as a pineapple?