>   I'm about 90% convinced that the Paleo diet as
> >presented in Neaderthin is solid.  The 10% doubt I'm faced with is the
> >assumption that we know what mankind ate many many years ago.  How do we
> >know?

I don't believe I made myself clear.  I'm looking more for ways to
investigate the underlying basis for the Paleo diet.  This diet is based on
assumptions that may or may not be true.  How do scientists dig up bones and
then are able to say that this person ate these foods, was this healthy, and
lived this long?  One of the Neaderthin points was that ancient man didn't
get certain auto-immune diseases.  How do they know that?  If the scientists
said they all had x-ray vision, how is this proved or disproved?

mas