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>   1. Paleo Queries

I am at a loss to reconcile Paleolithic  mans diet with  contaminating
influences from industrial societies.

Paleolithic man lived by definition before agriculture and therefore
before cities and industrialisation. Therefore he must have subsisted by
hunting,gathering and fishing. Before agriculture any wild grains would
be harvested, if at all, when the seeds were ripe and are unlikely to
have been a major part of the diet.

 Milk is usually provided by managed herds of cattle camels or horses.
How far paleolithic man, who lived during the last glacial period and in
its various warmer intervals, was following and milking herds is a
matter of controversy

Perhaps  Mr MacLean is confusing paleolithic man with more modern
" hunter gatherers" and has been misled by the nomenclature used by
anthropologists and archaeologists which may be some what specialised
but which we use unconciously now.:-)

M E Wood
M A Hons Prehistoric Archaeology (Edinburgh)

"What can be done with fewer assumptions is done in vain with more."
William of Occam 1285-1347.