> -----Original Message----- > William wrote: > ... > Postulate: yams were a weapon; get your neighbours to eat them, when > they > get fat and slow kill them and take over their territory. A > paleo version > of the Darwin award. > > When I first joined this list, there was a member named Amadeus, who > believed that tubers were the staple of paleoman. Amadedus was > fiercely opposed by Andrew. Their squabbles were entertaining. Maybe > worth looking in the archives, if interested. IIRC Andrew won. Thanks William, I had found Amadeus' posts about yams, but didn't find Andrew's refutations. Do you have Andrew's full address he used in the forum? I tried searching for "Andrew" in the "author's address" and "search for" fields, but didn't find much. > Tom Bri wrote: ... Plenty of skeletons have been found with tooth > and bone deformities indicating periods of starvation. During > those times they would have eaten anything close to edible, > and figured out how to make the inedible taste good. No > different from today in that. And probably, once they figured > it out, they kept on doing it. Toss a few bakers [yams] on the > coals, wait a while, sprinkle a little wind-dried sea-salt > ;--) on them....... > What time periods and skeletal remains are you referring to, Tom?