Article Title

FARMS-Sponsored Researcher Searches for More Plant Evidence of Voyages from India to America

Authors

Keywords

ancient Americas, ancient trans-Pacific voyages, maize, Carl L. Johannessen, University of Oregon

Abstract

Assisted by a grant from the Foundation, Carl L. Johannessen, Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Oregon, is now in India with an assistant searching for sculptured images of sunflowers and other American crop plants. Their earlier studies documented that images of maize from the New World had been carved on temple sculptures in India dating to medieval times, centuries before the Spaniards and Portuguese could have carried the plant to Asia after A.O. 1500, as scholars commonly suppose (Johannessen and Parker, "Maize Ears Sculpted in 12th and 13th Century A.O. India as Indicators of Pre-Columbian Diffusion," Economic Botany 43/2 [1989], 164-80; reprint available on the order form).

Recommended Citation

(1994) "FARMS-Sponsored Researcher Searches for More Plant Evidence of Voyages from India to America," Insights: The Newsletter of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship: Vol. 14: No. 2, Article 5.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/insights/vol14/iss2/5