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Nutrients in food vital to location of early human settlements: The original 'Palaeo-diet'
Eurekalert ^ | December 10, 2013 | Peter Franklin

Posted on 12/13/2013 8:01:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv

Over 50 nutrients are needed to sustain human life. In particular, it would have been essential for early humans to find sources of protein, fats, carbohydrates, folic acid and vitamin C. The researchers suggest vitamins and protein may have come from sources such as raw liver, eggs, fish and plants, including watercress (which grows year round). Fats in particular, may have come from bone marrow, beaver tails and highly nutritious eels.

The nutritional diversity of these sites allowed hominins to colonise the Atlantic fringe of north west Europe during warm periods of the Pleistocene. These sites permitted the repeated occupation of this marginal area from warmer climate zones further south

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To: cripplecreek

Conquer or starve?


21 posted on 12/14/2013 4:45:21 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: cripplecreek
500 handaxes or more were discovered

Earth to hippie academic: 500 handaxes weren't for chopping the happy commune firewood. That many functional handaxes found together are the loser's battle axes.

22 posted on 12/14/2013 5:48:55 AM PST by Reeses
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To: headstamp 2

EEL the other white meat. :-)


23 posted on 12/14/2013 8:24:29 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Rodamala

If there is a WAPF ping list, I would LOVE to be on it!


24 posted on 12/15/2013 8:30:48 PM PST by The Californian (The door to the room of success swings on the hinges of opposition. Bob Jones, Sr.)
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To: The Californian

Often raw milk stories show up on FR... stirring lively debate.

I am not big on Weston A. Price, per se... it’s just that I was raised on real foods, and mom refused to feed us hydrogenated soybean oil... before anyone ever heard of “transfats”, or identified soy as a phytoestrogen.


25 posted on 12/15/2013 10:38:08 PM PST by Rodamala
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To: SunkenCiv

Raw liver? What did they do with the rest of the carcass?


26 posted on 12/16/2013 1:19:07 PM PST by fanfan ("If Muslim kids were asked to go to church on Sunday and take Holy Communion there would be war.")
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