Human skull of Mollet III at Serinyà from the ancient excavation. Image: Joaquim Soler
Posted on 04/10/2021 6:38:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
In the Gravettian period (33,000-25,000 years before present), hunter-gatherers ate the food available in their local surroundings. That included mammoth in central Europe, horse and reindeer in Britain; and seafood on the Atlantic or Mediterranean coasts of what are now France and Italy. During the last glacial maximum (27,000-23,000 years ago), the very cold and dry climate forced people to retreat to southern regions. The Iberian, Italian and Greek peninsulas in particular were increasingly populated.
The fossil remains of four individuals from Serinyà, Spain, were not scientifically investigated for a long time due to doubts about their age. Researchers at the University of Girona have now used radiocarbon dating to determine that the bones are 25,000-27,000 years old. The very well-preserved bulk collagen from the bones made it possible for SHEP researchers in Tübingen to carry out isotopic analyses—this in turn makes it possible to determine what the people studied mostly ate.
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MEAT...
Bbq mamoth! Tastes like really big chiken.
And here I thought the earth was only 6000 years old...
They would have eaten at the French Laundry in Napa, but it was just so hard to get reservations.
“hunter-gatherers ate the food available in their local surroundings”
Shocking. So, they were acting locally, but were they thinking globally?
Only takes four guys to lift a drumstick up on the grill. :)
“The results showed that the four individuals from Serinyà had a diet based on terrestrial resources - plants and land animals from the region - especially small animals such as rabbits. The amino acid isotopes confirmed that the individuals ate almost no fish. This is surprising because until now it was assumed that people in this climatically harsh period were dependent on food from lakes, streams and the sea.
“Dorothée Drucker points out that we are always learning more about the lifestyle and diet of Stone Age people. “It appears that there was little fishing done in some populations in that era, even close to coastal regions. Apparently, even in this cold climate, the terrestrial environment was productive enough to sustain people,” she says.”
I hear the archaeologists found one of the giants buckets of slaw.
They would have eaten at the French Laundry in Napa, but it was just so hard to get reservations for eons and eons!
They damn well better be eating “paleo.”;-)
“the four individuals from Serinyà had a diet based on terrestrial resources—plants and land animals from the region—especially small animals such as rabbits.”
Traditional paella with rabbit and snails.
“hunter-gatherers ate the food available in their local surroundings”
As if they had a choice.
Brontosaurus burgers...I saw it on The Flintstones!
All that is meat. What about veggies?
Who needs meat and veggies when you can hunt and gather in the local junk food aisle.
What type of animal at that time was kosher or keto? Bet they ate a lot of raw things as fire didn’t come until later. But it relieved someone from asking how you wanted your brontosaurus.
wy69
What type of animal at that time was kosher or keto? Bet they ate a lot of raw things as fire didn’t come until later. But it relieved someone from asking how you wanted your brontosaurus.
wy69
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