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> From: Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]>
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> ...Some beans, such as
> lentils, can be made edible by soaking, which involves
> essentially the same low-level technology, i.e., an animal
> bladder to hold water and the stuff being sprouted or soaked.
Hmmm. Is this actually being proposed? How about giving it a
field trial and let us know the results before carrying this
topic any further? Mmmmm... urine-flavored soggy lentils.
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> ...lentils grew wild in
> the Fertile Crescent and could be made edible by the relatively
> trivial process of soaking...
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Many other plants no doubt grew there >10K years ago, but
in the absence of evidence (coproliths, mummified remains etc)
there's no reason to believe they were consumed in significant
quantities in pre-Neolithic times.
The culture of gathering, drying & storing large amounts
of wild seed/legumes for use beyond the season would be a
precursor to the Neolithic, and therefore post- or transitional-
post Paleolithic.
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