doing archaeology

Tomatoes were on the list, so these were a bonus. I shall be quartering and planting some of them to see it I can get plants - which then fruit!

I wasn't certain how many varieties there were so I "sequenced" the orange/yellow ones - and determined there was one sort, not two.

[narayani]

Nice range of fruit

[Babs]

Lots of different coloured varieties.

[Casablanca]

That sounds like fun

[Desi]

Ummm - you lost me. (but that's not hard to do LOL). What do you mean there is one sort not two? And what have tomatoes to do with archeology?

[Annie-Sue]

@seacreature so, in archaeology, if you have a number of a certain type of thing - say stone axe heads, you can establish a relative chronology for them by putting the two that are least alike at the beginning and end of a line and then filling the gap with the others: the most like the first one after it, and the most like the last one, just before it, and so on until all axe-heads have been placed - and essentially you should have them in date order - oldest to newest/least complex to most developed.

So, in wondering whether I had one or two sorts of orange and/or yellow tomatoes [and they actually look more different in real life], I found the orangest one and the yellowest one and then found the most like each and so on around a circle, when it became clear that despite a bit of size difference and the occasional pointiness, there was just one type.

Hope that helps!