No, high carb diets have only existed in the last 200 years.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but you should go ahead and check out a book on the history of agriculture. You will find that people have been growing and eating grains and vegetables for much longer than 200 years. While you are at it look at the use of grains by ancient cultures. This anti-carb lunacy is causing many people to make very bad dietary choices and it has been going on long enough in the demographic we are discussing to cause all sorts of intestinal problems from irritable bowel syndrome to cancer.