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> Mustard as a spice is one of the earliest on record, appearing in Sanskrit manuscripts around 3000 BCE Citation needed. Wikipedia [0] has this to say: > Sa

> Mustard as a spice is one of the earliest on record, appearing in Sanskrit manuscripts around 3000 BCE Citation needed. Wikipedia [0] has this to say: > Sanskrit generally connotes several Old Indo-Aryan language varieties. The most archaic of these is the Vedic Sanskrit found in the Rigveda, a collection of 1,028 hymns composed between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes migrating east from what is today Afghanistan across northern Pakistan and into northwestern India. I'm interested to know what this manuscript source is that's older than the Vedas. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit

keville 3y ago
Looks like everyone's riding on a single reference to this 1968 paper that makes the 3000 BCE claim: https://eurekamag.com/research/014/507/014507621.php https://eurekamag.com/research/014/507/014507621.php
- Projectiboga 3y ago
  That happens more than it should. The Six Foot rule during the pandemic was based on a slide from a conference presentation in the 50s, citing a 1930s tuberculous study and wasn't relevant to viruses. A Medical researcher got onto this early as "social distancing" wasn't working and she had trouble finding any credible source and found the 1930s paper and then started following citations back into the 1950s to one slide. It was just repeated on and on with no continuation of the actual source citation. [edit] here is a link to the original NYT article from June of 2020 https://archive.is/ZuSyc https://archive.is/ZuSyc https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu... Archive link for research and education. https://archive.is/z14Ia https://archive.is/z14Ia
dfxm12 3y ago
Wikipedia [0] also has this to say (emphasis mine): According to the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission, "Some of the earliest known documentation of mustard's use dates back to Sumerian and Sanskrit texts from 3000 BC". This site (which does not give evidence for the claim) is cited for this quote: https://web.archive.org/web/20160325032401/http://www.saskmustard.com/consumer/mustard/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160325032401/http://www.saskmu... Perhaps it was a mistake when copying and pasting. Although, I do think it is important to note that it's not important what Wikipedia says. It matters what the sources say & if they are actual scholarly sources (and not just some type of marketing copy)... 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_plant#cite_ref-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_plant#cite_ref-3

keville 3y ago

Looks like everyone's riding on a single reference to this 1968 paper that makes the 3000 BCE claim: https://eurekamag.com/research/014/507/014507621.php https://eurekamag.com/research/014/507/014507621.php

Projectiboga 3y ago
That happens more than it should. The Six Foot rule during the pandemic was based on a slide from a conference presentation in the 50s, citing a 1930s tuberculous study and wasn't relevant to viruses. A Medical researcher got onto this early as "social distancing" wasn't working and she had trouble finding any credible source and found the 1930s paper and then started following citations back into the 1950s to one slide. It was just repeated on and on with no continuation of the actual source citation. [edit] here is a link to the original NYT article from June of 2020 https://archive.is/ZuSyc https://archive.is/ZuSyc https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwup-that-helped-covid-kill/ https://www.wired.com/story/the-teeny-tiny-scientific-screwu... Archive link for research and education. https://archive.is/z14Ia https://archive.is/z14Ia

dfxm12 3y ago

Wikipedia [0] also has this to say (emphasis mine): According to the Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission, "Some of the earliest known documentation of mustard's use dates back to Sumerian and Sanskrit texts from 3000 BC". This site (which does not give evidence for the claim) is cited for this quote: https://web.archive.org/web/20160325032401/http://www.saskmustard.com/consumer/mustard/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160325032401/http://www.saskmu... Perhaps it was a mistake when copying and pasting. Although, I do think it is important to note that it's not important what Wikipedia says. It matters what the sources say & if they are actual scholarly sources (and not just some type of marketing copy)... 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_plant#cite_ref-3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_plant#cite_ref-3