The article Eat Like a Neanderthal which I provided links to (2 parts)
yesterday is coauthored by a nutritionalist and an anthropologist; the
latter specializes in ancient diets, evidence for which is found both in
prehistoric garbage sites and fecal matter set to stone. One conclusion to
that article is that as humans spread throughout the world, nutrition was
consistent with their environment. Added to that, glacial ages profoundly
altered diet - northern continents immersed in ice, parts of Africa
partched. In the long haul, there was never something one can call a
standard, uniform Paleo diet. 

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Subject: Re: Latest On Dietary Acid/Base Balance Being Crucial

I know there was a study, years back,  which claimed that the Neanderthals
ate only or mostly meats in their diet, but it seems to have been debunked
by another, more recent study which showed them eating plants, which makes
it unlikely that they were in ketosis.

 

Geoff






 
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:21:10 -0800
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Latest On Dietary Acid/Base Balance Being Crucial
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Hi Joan,
> 
> If the early Neandertals were in ketosis, which may have been the case 
> given the marks on bones at excavations, they may not have been ravenous 
> as you suggest. When in ketosis, hunger is not a pressing thing.
> Best Wishes,
> Ron
> 
> 
> Joan Howe wrote:
> > A recent re-examination of Neanderthal bones has revealed butcher marks
on all of them. Put this in the context of the Neanderthal as having the
physique of our top athletes and thus needing about 4000 calories a day.
This would have been a creature that was always hungry. The friend who told
me of these recent findings has theorized that Neanderthals have left their
mark in European folk memory as the trolls of our fairy stories:
human-shaped, immensely strong, not too bright, ate people.
> >
> > 
 		 	   		  
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