Ancient Grains Show Paleolithic Diet Was More Than Just Meat

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/revised-paleolithic-diet/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29

Humanity’s stone age ancestors, long thought to have practiced a prehistoric version of the Atkins diet, may have eaten a balanced diet after all. Wear patterns and starch grains found on 30,000-year-old stones from Russia, Italy and the Czech Republic suggest plant-based food processing was widespread far earlier than believed.

I'd like to see the original study. Interesting stuff, though. 30,000 years isn't terribly old; the Neolithic Revolution (the first agricultural revolution) occurred "around 10,000 BP."

It is funny that people think the Hunter-gatherer diet or "caveman diet" is mostly about eating meat.

They ate alot of nuts, seeds, leaves, flowers, roots, barks, wild growing legumes, berries, and more ..

At night when the sun went down, they ate meat

they probably didn't eat much if any gluten(and maybe the grains fermented kinda like sourdough making gluten and other issues somewhat obsolete) still and didn't feed the animals they hunted their grains even if they did keep animals the animals probably roamed freely, ate what they wanted to and weren't loaded up on drugs.

There are some evidence imho, that they [hunter-gatherers] sprouted wild legumes, not boiling them like we do today.

As for grains and rice, imho they would have regarded as inferior foods due to their inability to build muscle and the tiredness they invoke after consumption.

There were other points I wished the article would have covered like the storage of grains. Grain storage would have made grains one of the main portions of their diet. Storage containers not only contain the food stuff for long term storage but would also keep the rats, insects and other pestilence out of the grains. The storage of foods would have allowed for a population explosion and these groups of people may have very well expanded out the Eastern Europe as result; some linguist think this is exactly what happened, there was a sudden movement of people during that time and they displaced the language on the continents of Europe, parts of Asia and what used to be called Asia Minor. These people probably laid down the foundation of our language today as they probably arrived as an invading and conquering peoples or maybe just inundated those areas.

Just before 70,000 years ago, before the bottleneck of Homo Sapiens, a sudden decrease in population in most of Europe and Asia except for Africa, (probably due to some climatic or natural catastrophe) there is some evidence that human beings were already sailing to gather fish or following the food resources. 38,000 years ago the Aborigines of Australia arrived (There was no land bridge to Australia at the time as I was taught in Elementary school) sailing from one Island to the next much like the Polynesians and Vikings and the many others after them. Usually, these people brought the foods with them from their homeland and sort of terraformed their environment to imitate the place of origin. But then these people would have evolved the best diet for themselves dependent on what the land can produce.

Which brings me to another questions, why is their a 20,000 year gap between appearance of tools to process grains in Eastern Europe 30,000 years ago and the appearance of tools to process grains 10,000 years ago. The way we perceive hunters and gathers as small bands of people has changed a lot in the last couple of decades. One archeological site found how hunters and gathers lived in townships and communities of 100 possibly 1000s at Gobekli Tepe, erecting large building ceremonial halls. I think when food resources are plentiful, animal meat, there is no need for widespread agriculture.

I wonder if the flour from the cattails and ferns plants have gluten.

Great article by Dr John Berardi.

http://www.johnberardi.com/articles/nutrition/built2.htm

https://immortalhair.forumotion.com/natural-hair-regrowth-f1/were-my-ancestors-carnivores-t4684.htm