Stone Age flour found across Europe

NatureNews ^ | Oct 18, 2010 | Ewen Callaway

[Islander7]

After all, humans, ancient or modern, just aren't equipped to live on a diet of meat alone. "If you get that much meat in your diet not balanced out with other nutrients, you get protein poisoning," says Hardy.

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Nor are we equipment to live in vegetables alone.

[Islander7]

Ping

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

I think my wife uses it in her lead weights, er, biscuits.

[squarebarb]

Can that be true? Inuit (Eskimos) have lived on an all-meat diet for millenia.

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

"It's another nail in the coffin of the idea that hunter–gatherers didn't use plants for food,"

Who the heck thinks that? Hunter = hunt for animals. Gather = gather berries, fruit, nuts, grains, vegetables, etc.

[sierrahome]

So we were eating biscuits and sausage gravy 20,000 years ago?

[edcoil]

So human had bread with their meat. Why is this a surprise.

[353FMG]

And in what is now known as the American South, grits was very common. Scrambled eggs, bacon and hashbrowns came much later.

[Rodamala]

Funniest (most ironic, too) bumper sticker I can recall... spotted in the parking lot at a Phish show in 1996:

"My ancestors didn't claw and bite their way up
the food chain so that I could eat veggie burritos!"

[earlJam]

But not as good as this....

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PETERMAN: Inside that small college boy mini-fridge is my latest acquisition. A slice of cake from the wedding of King Edward VIII to Wallis Simpson, circa 1937, price—$29,000.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Not really. While they did not cultivate plants they did gather wild plants and eat them. It was not a huge part of their diet but they did eat some plants.

Their diet was also very high in fat. When you eat pure protein without fat or with very little fat you end up with protein poisoning. However it was something that the Inuit used to face in the late winter.

[Magic Fingers]

“So human had bread with their meat. Why is this a surprise.”

Yep...since plants can’t run away and some of them are edible, why would anyone have thought early man would only eat meat?

[Inyo-Mono]

Who the heck thinks that? Hunter = hunt for animals. Gather = gather berries, fruit, nuts, grains, vegetables, etc

My thoughts too. The local tribes around here were hunters, but I find grinding stones all over the place.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

It was my understanding that hunter-GATHERERS ate anything organic which they could get in their mouth. What were they Gathering?

[mrsmith]

!

Nah, this was probably an early weedeater.

“Built to last!”

[Lazamataz]

Stone Age flour found across Europe

So make me a biscuit.

[Daffynition]

[Larry Lucido]

Why would you want to be a biscuit?

[Larry Lucido]

Of course stone age folks had flour. How else would they make pizza?

What I guarantee you will never find is stone-age quiche.

[SunkenCiv]

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