I'm afraid you're labouring under a misapprehension. Modern "hunter-gatherer" 
societies are NOT "palaeolithic", they are Neolithic, as indeed is any tribe from 
10,000 BC onwards, from a hsitorical point of view. As soon as they adopted 
Neolithic-era practices such as eating grains, tubers (or in the case of the 
Masai, drinking raw dairy)etc., they no longer can be considered Palaeolithic 
even from a purely dietary context, in any way, by definition.

I agree re earlier veg-eating Hominids(though not necessarily tubers) at a very 
early period, but from a couple of million years ago, meat became predominant.

Geoff

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On Sat, 10 May 2008 16:31:03 -0400, Keith Thomas <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

>On Sat, 10 May 2008 05:15 Geoffrey Purcell wrote:
>
>>I don't believe there is any real evidence for eating 
>>tubers in the middle and late Palaeolithic 
>
>In the early Palaeolithic the Pananthropus line (who
>were maked by a "robust" conformation) were
>vegetarian. However, it appears they died out about
>one million years ago and did not lead into the Homo line.
>
>The latest Palaeolithic people included the Australian
>Aborigines, who were all Palaeolithic until at least
>1788, and some of the desert-dwellers were wholly
>Palaeolithic through to the mid-20th century. Tubers
>and other roots, as well as grains, comprised a significant
>part of their diet.
>
>Keith