Re: On gurds, pumpkins and calabashes

[Christian Folini]

At 19:01 03.08.99 +0000, David Cooke wrote:
>Translating from French, roughly:there are no archaeological finds of 
>gourds made from the calabasse (north african)plants dating from before the 
>18th century, in our part of  Europe. From the CUCURBITAES there are many 
>species cultivated for their fruits which originated in the mediteranean 
>region. Note that the word gourd stems from the latin Cucurbis - Kürbis.

This is more or less what that German archaeobotanic said. I can not seem
to understand the different species of cucurbitaes and similar.
He told me, there were finds of seeds of the variant used for powder 
and drinking bottles also in den middle ages. On the other hand he 
insisted, that articles mentioning pumpkin finds (I cited one to him)
were completely wrong.

>ISBN : 2-905854-28-6 for the exhibition catalogue. david.

could you lend this one to me sometime? christian

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