Last week Staffan lindeberg wondered how they might cook cereals without
pottery.

The Australian Aboriginal people might be a good example here. They had no
pottery.

First they roasted the cereals (or other seeds such as acacias) in the ashes of
a fire. The women would then separate the seeds from the dirt and ashes using a
highly skilled shaking action in a coolamon (a curved wooden dish).  They would
then grind the seeds on a grinding stone mixing in a little water.  They woould
eat the paste with their fingers or alternatively cook the paste on a hot stone
to form a kind of damper.

Best wishes  Jennie

PS  Thanks for all your comments about high protein diets.  All very
interesting.  But more research needed!

Assoc. Professor Jennie Brand Miller
Human Nutrition Unit, Dept. of Biochemistry G08
University of Sydney, 2006, Australia
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