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Interesting article in wikiepedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet
It says people ate this way during "2 million years duration, ending about 10,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens, invented agriculture"
The article mentions eggs as part of the p-diet. But, aren't eggs an agricultural food? I also thought that eggs were only available in china for a while before they were spread throughout the globe.
For some reason I thought potatoes were what hunters and gatherers ate.
edit: nevermind
"It has been established that wild tubers would have been a common component in historically studied hunter-gatherer diets, comprising 23.6 % of all the plant food consumed by the average hunter-gatherer.[31] High glycemic load tubers (such as potatoes, which were developed from intensive agricultural inbreeding of wild types), however, would not have been part of pre-agricultural diets"
It says they didn't eat fatty meats, there were no fatty animals back in the day?
It says they ate nuts, but not cashews. Aren't cashews nuts?
"There is evidence that legumes were not generally consumed before the agricultural revolution.[37] However, recent archeological finds indicate that large seeded legumes were part of the human diet long before the neolithic agricultural revolution"
Thoughts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet
It says people ate this way during "2 million years duration, ending about 10,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens, invented agriculture"
The article mentions eggs as part of the p-diet. But, aren't eggs an agricultural food? I also thought that eggs were only available in china for a while before they were spread throughout the globe.
For some reason I thought potatoes were what hunters and gatherers ate.
edit: nevermind
"It has been established that wild tubers would have been a common component in historically studied hunter-gatherer diets, comprising 23.6 % of all the plant food consumed by the average hunter-gatherer.[31] High glycemic load tubers (such as potatoes, which were developed from intensive agricultural inbreeding of wild types), however, would not have been part of pre-agricultural diets"
It says they didn't eat fatty meats, there were no fatty animals back in the day?
It says they ate nuts, but not cashews. Aren't cashews nuts?
"There is evidence that legumes were not generally consumed before the agricultural revolution.[37] However, recent archeological finds indicate that large seeded legumes were part of the human diet long before the neolithic agricultural revolution"
Thoughts?
