[From nobody Tue Mar 10 11:32:36 2009 Return-Path: <owner-quaternary@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA> Received: from mailrelay.williams.edu (EHLO mailrelay.williams.edu) ([137.165.4.207]) by miram5000a.williams.edu (MOS 3.10.4-GA FastPath queued) with ESMTP id AEG87459; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:48:26 -0400 (EDT) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjEDAOPktEmGmegqjGdsb2JhbACUCoEkAQoLCgcQRLo2hAUG X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,330,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="74927541" Received: from cliffy.ucs.mun.ca ([134.153.232.42]) by mailgate.williams.edu with ESMTP; 09 Mar 2009 12:48:25 -0400 Received: from cliffy.ucs.mun.ca (cliffy.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.232.42]) by cliffy.ucs.mun.ca (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n29BmDxI030880; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:10:47 -0230 Received: by CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.3) with spool id 23057576 for QUATERNARY@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:10:26 -0230 Received: from burin.ucs.mun.ca (burin.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.232.60]) by cliffy.ucs.mun.ca (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n29GUQTG031997 for <quaternary@cliffy.ucs.mun.ca>; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:00:26 -0230 Received: from fmmailgate04.web.de (fmmailgate04.web.de [217.72.192.242]) by burin.ucs.mun.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n29GUIQo032216 for <quaternary@cliffy.ucs.mun.ca>; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 14:00:19 -0230 Received: from web.de by fmmailgate04.web.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C86E60733DA for <quaternary@cliffy.ucs.mun.ca>; Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:29:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from [95.114.247.204] by freemailng6304.web.de with HTTP; Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:29:50 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: fm-user X-Provags-Id: V01U2FsdGVkX1+6iiQCNYxIi3/0oJysLglWNj3eMeJVR28cZzody5YNkJ/uE QcQHoclh5OQSfW63Uh6zBLPkMwzTxp1240J4TPR/QE+MhQfdjQ= X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.153.232.60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <519272764@web.de> Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 17:29:50 +0100 Reply-To: Pim de Klerk <pimdeklerk@WEB.DE> Sender: Research in Quaternary Science <QUATERNARY@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA> From: Pim de Klerk <pimdeklerk@WEB.DE> Organization: http://freemail.web.de/ Subject: request on Fagopyrum in europe To: QUATERNARY@CLIFFY.UCS.MUN.CA --apologies for cross-posting Dear colleagues, Cultivation of buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) in Europe was first mentio= ned in archive sources in the 1390-ies. The species was assumed to have be= en imported from the Middle East, and it became widely accepted among scie= ntists in vegetation history that buckwheat did not occur in Europe prior = to ca. AD 1400.=20 =20 Nevertheless, many records exist from Europe that include pollen attributa= ble to Fagopyrum in time-frames conspicuously earlier than the Late Mediev= al (cf. attached Table). This implies that the genus might already have be= en present considerably earlier than generally assumed. Since these early occurrences never have been discussed systematically, we= now are preparing a review on the subject. We aim to: - make an inventory of the available observations prior to the late Mediev= al; - evaluate all these records, i.e. to what extent are these observations r= eliable, and to what extent errors (e.g. contamination) might have been in= volved; - reconstruct the immigration patterns of buckwheat in Europe; - determine whether (and to what extent) buckwheat was cultivated, or whet= her it occurred spontaneously (cf. the wild form Fagopyrum tataricum). =20 We would greatly appreciate your assistance: do you know/have further reco= rds of early pollen or macrofossil findings attributable to Fagopyrum=3F We = are not only looking for published sources, but also welcome =93personal com= munications=94 on unpublished observations. We assume that in many cases =96 s= ince it was trivial for the relevant study =96 pollen of buckwheat was omitt= ed from publication, especially when pollen diagrams with only selected po= llen types were presented. Looking forward to your response, Pim de Klerk Staatliches Museum f=FCr Naturkunde Karlsruhe Erbprinzenstra=DFe 13 D-76133 Karsruhe, Germany pimdeklerk@web.de Hans Joosten Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology Grimmer Stra=DFe 88 D-14987 Greifswald, Germany joosten@uni-greifswald.de ]