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Don Wiss <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:59:16 -0400
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Diane Heath posted:
 >   Remember that I said the "Iceman" found in the Tyrolean Alps,
 >certainly followed a Paleolithic diet,

As Ray pointed out he was definitely Neolithic. He died only 5,000 
years ago. There are several web pages discussing his last meal. Here's one:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/iceman-last-meal.html

"The meal was a simple affair, consisting of a bit of unleavened 
bread made of einkorn wheat, one of the few domesticated grains used 
in the Iceman's part of the world at this time, some other plant, 
possibly an herb or other green, and meat."

"he quickly identified the flake-like, semi-digested material that 
made up the bulk of the sample as einkorn, the most important wheat 
of the Neolithic,"

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