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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 12/28/2010 : 06:53:50
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It seems that Neandertals cooked and ate vegetables. Now, these folks were hunter-gatherers so it comes as no shock that they took advantage of edible plants and their seeds as well as their roots and tubers. That they cooked them is a high probability, as many plants are, for one reason or another, inedible unless cooked.
This, of course, encourages speculation that their diet had stews and soups made from scraps of meat and whatever veggies happened to be in the area. It is possible, perhaps even probable, that their diet was as nutritious as our own (and a lot better, in too many cases).
WASHINGTON — A US study found that Neanderthals, prehistoric cousins of humans, ate grains and vegetables as well as meat, cooking them over fire in the same way homo sapiens did.
The new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges a prevailing theory that Neanderthals' over reliance on meat contributed to their extinction around 30,000 years ago.
Researchers found grains from numerous plants, including a type of wild grass, as well as traces of roots and tubers, trapped in plaque buildup on fossilized Neanderthal teeth unearthed in northern Europe and Iraq.
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A paleolithic gumbo
