Todd Moody wrote:


> I don't think we have a satisfactory picture of the role that
> some legumes might have played in paleolithic diets.


Dry beans start showing up in the caves and shelters of paleo man just
before they became neolithic man. Green legumes would not survive to
today in the record, but we can be fairly sure that dried/mature beans
were not a big part of the paleo diet.

So many legumes are outright poisonous, even to pure herbivores, I
don't imagine raw legumes ever were much of our diet. A few baby beans maybe.