There is rather a lot of evidence in favour of the notion that carbohydrates were eaten in moderate amounts in palaeo times:-

 

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/71/3/682

 

And, of course, carbohydrate-consumption would have varied considerably among humans, with carb-intake increasing the further one went towards the equator, for obvious reasons, and vice-versa.

 

The primary reason why meat-intake has been focused on more than plant-food-intake in palaeo times has been solely due to the fact that evidence of meat-intake(ie bones) is much easier to find. By contrast, plant-remains are extremely perishable, unlike bones, so it is far more difficult to determine the true plant-intake of ancient hominids. That said, as science has progressed, there has been more research into this issue. For example, there was a recent study on Neanderthal teeth that showed that Neanderthals did indeed eat some plants along with a wide variety of animal foods, whereas previous studies had suggested they only ate meats from large mammals.

 

Geoff

 		 	   		  
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