On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 22:05:44 -0700, toni mettler <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Reading in between the lines, i took it to say that >sometimes they did eat potatoes especially yam and sweet potatoes because >they are more "natural." Sweet potatoes are not related to potatoes. They come from south america and hunter/gatherers there ate them. Yam ditto, elsewhere. Tubers and roots like these are a *basic* food of hunter/gatherers. The digging stick is a older and more successful tool that the "spear". Particularly in Africa, our real old paleolithic home. A.S.